Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Foundation, which is devoted to improving race relations on campus, began to address this problem last year when it set up a student-faculty committee which focuses on academics, including the paucity of ethnic course offerings...
Adieu, croissants! Adios, tacos! Make way for the ethnic sandwich vehicle of the moment. The bagel has gone mainstream. Dense and chewy, with a shiny golden brown crust and a center hole, this round Jewish-Eastern European roll has long been a breakfast favorite primarily in New York City and along the Atlantic seaboard. Now it is increasingly appearing on fast-food menus and in the freezers of supermarkets well beyond its ethnic boundaries. Two giant firms have moved into the frozen-bagel business in recent years: Kraft, which owns Lender's, the first and largest producer of frozen bagels...
...Angeles has attracted as many first-rate mystery novelists as any other metropolis, and none have been better at evoking the landscape, the light, the architecture and the ethnic diversity than Joseph Hansen. The ninth and most affecting of his series featuring Dave Brandstetter, a homosexual insurance- claims investigator, returns the private eye to the byways of the gay subculture, particularly among more secretive and closeted denizens. Early Graves (Mysterious Press; 184 pages; $15.95) is not the first novel to deal with the impact of AIDS and will surely not be the last, but it will probably rank with...
...settle for re-reading our Philip Roth. I won't level the charge of anti-Semitism here because I don't think it applies to your newspaper or any of its writers; still, I hope the Crimson does not soon diversify to include stereotypical/prejudicial attacks on other ethnic or religious groups who happen to be represented on its staff, for the result would surely be barbarous...
...Wonder bread, is at least whole wheat: overwhelmingly white and largely Protestant and middle class. Only about 2% of Iowa's 2.8 million people are black or Hispanic. The state's proportion of foreign-born residents is equally minuscule. At the Waterloo Rotary Club recently, the toastmaster told an ethnic joke -- about Norwegians from Minnesota...