Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst of all, Burdick thought, was what he called "cultural passivity." In England, he found, there was none of "the rise and fall, the massive brooding anxiety, the creative stabbing of self-doubt, the tortures of ethnic inadequacy that one finds to a marked degree in America and Asia . . ." He doubted very much whether England "could today produce a Shakespeare," but thought America or Asia might...
...that 30 per cent of the immigrants must be agricultural workers, and that 40 per cent must come from the three small Baltic countries. Further, only people who arrived in DP camps during certain periods of time can be admitted, which conveniently cuts down the number eligible in certain ethnic and religious groups...
...small new recording company in Manhattan is dedicated to that proposition. Last week, the Ethnic Folkways Library issued its fifth album, Music of Indonesia ($7.33)*. Ten more albums will be released in the fall...
...have been in a good many of these bunkers and lagers, doing welfare work, and the conditions are indeed appalling. But the inhabitants are in most cases not Germans. They are ethnic Germans, Volksdeutsch, expellees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, etc. Loyal to Germany during the war, they have been repaid for this loyalty by being herded into bunkers and lagers in filth and misery...
Anglo-Saxons usually had the lean builds and Catholics come from ethnic groups which are powerful and stocky...