Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor takes pains to point out that Joseph's views betray "neo-racism," which "is essentially different from old-racism." In Kilson's full explanation, "neo-racism" is "a twisted-neurotic racist virus abroad among some white students--mainly white-ethnic newcomers to the middle classes--and while this neo-racism is essentially different from old-racism, it must be met and fought head-on, and the pressure must be kept on college administrations across the country...
What--any professor might ask if Kilson's letter were a student's paper--does this cryptic sentence mean? Calling neo-racism a twisted-neurotic virus, while vivid, leaves the term undefined. Its essential difference from old-racism evidently has to do with those who propound it, namely "white-ethnic newcomers to the middle class." Could the reference be to Jews (like Joseph) and Catholics (like...
...write in response to two items in Monday's Crimson--1) report on campus racism conference at Yale, and 2) Glenn Orenstein's letter. The Yale campus-racism conference was very good news, for there is clearly a twisted-neurotic racist virus abroad among some White students--mainly White-ethnic newcomers to the middle classes--and, while this neo-racism is essentially different from old-racism, it must be met and fought head-on, and the pressure must be kept on college administrations across the country. What is especially important about the Yale campus-racism gathering is the upfront role...
...purveyors of take-out food do not always do their own cooking. Although most ready-to-eat dishes are made in store kitchens or in large central commissaries of supermarket chains, some take-out food departments shop at other sources. They may buy ethnic specialties to supplement their own production or pour prepared soup into electrified tureens or, like Fairway in New York City, buy everything ready-made. What they offer is, in fact, retaken-out meals...
...candidate I believe in, someone who could possibly carry the goals and ideals I found in the '60s. His whole campaign has been a healing process for the party. He's talking about issues and people we've ignored for years: drugs and economic devastation, issues that transcend ethnic and religious problems. The other candidates are just politicians. I can't get excited about them...