Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly is. People were interned if they were only one-eighth Japanese by blood. There were no camps for German Americans, despite real support for Germany and Hitler in the German-American Bund. And no camps were set up for Japanese Americans in Hawaii, where there were plenty of ethnic Japanese but no strong tradition of anti-Japanese resentments...
...hope that Gore would peel enough white votes from Dukakis to make the race competitive. Instead, Gore flopped utterly. He became a prisoner of his chief local patron, New York City Mayor Ed Koch, whose vituperative attacks on Jackson further polluted the city's dense ethnic atmosphere and totally obscured Gore's own image. Local TV cameras repeatedly captured Gore looking bewildered, like a farm boy being fleeced by a Times Square three-card-monte artist, as Koch lashed out at Jackson's shortcomings...
...done? I've two pieces of advice, the first tame, the second rather radical. First, continue the pressure on the administration; if it produces even one new minority hiring, that will be a victory. Second, if its role models that you're after, break out of your ethnic shell a bit and look to the white faculty along with those few who are not. That's a big part of what Harvard is about. Christopher H. Foreman '74 University of Maryland
Booth is currently finishing a year-long project commissioned by the Library of Congress taking pictures of Lowell, Mass. for a documentary on "the culture, tradition and ethnic practices" of Lowell. The town had been a model city for industrialists in the 1800s, when it was a major producer of textiles, but it was hard-hit by economic slumps earlier this century. Lowell is now emerging as a revitalized city and a center for the computer industry...
...anxieties connected with this enormous status transition. He might educate himself on the matter by reading the old and new literature on the subject. Or by opening his eyes, by reading the press or watching television, for events in places like Howard Beach, Carnarise, and South Boston. Yes, white-ethnic newcomers to the middle-classes are ideal candidates for neoracist behavior, whether in South Boston or Harvard Yard. Martin Kilson Professor of Government