Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is not one of race, it is one ofculture. The concept of race is deceptive in thatit encourages people to form and rely upon falseidentities," Reid wrote. "In many ways AmericanBlacks have more in common with American whites,than with Africans or Afro-Caribbeans. Racialconstructs have real effects, and so must be givenconsideration; but we should not allow them tocloud our perception of `reality.' And the realityis that we are all in the midst of personalbattles with `identity...
...other business, several council members reported on attending the Ivy Council, a colloquium of Ivy League student governments, at Cornell University last weekend. They returned with a book of information from the other schools about 12 issues common to each campus. The Ivy Council elected Karteron as one of its vice-presidents for the coming year...
Similarly, the Jews who write for The Crimson's editorial page write on an amazing variety of issues of general concern, from Eric Clapton to queer culture, campus apathy to Republican politics, assuming a range of positions from left-liberal to neo-conservative. It is impossible to find a common perspective in their writings that could not also be found in the editorials of The Crimson's non-Jewish writers...
...Color, anyone?" and "Hey, there's an Indian without any color," were some of the students' most common cries, to the tune of soundtracks from Holi scenes in Hindi films playing on stereo systems they brought to the quad...
...police and 257,000 well-equipped internal troops. The President paused then for a chat with Minister of Defense Igor Sergeyev and federal security chief Nikolai Kovalev. Just routine, said presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky. Not entirely, says another Kremlin official. That chat was "a prudent precaution," simply common sense when you have just fired Kulikov, an unreconstructed hawk with enormous ambition and many troops within marching distance of the Kremlin...