Word: ethnical
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...means to be black in America, trying to translate that for a wider audience." Joining TIME in 1972, he worked first as a writer in New York, then as a correspondent in Atlanta and Boston. In 1976 White won a Nieman Fellowship and went to Harvard to study ethnic politics and sociology in preparation for a stint as head of the Nairobi bureau from 1980 to 1982. On his return to the U.S., he covered the 1984 presidential campaign then went to Chicago as bureau chief the following year...
...election to the Cambridge City Council as a conservative, anti-rent control representative of the landlords, marked the coming of a new type of politician to the city, council candidate Ed Cyr says. While other anti-rent control candidates such as Mayor Walter Sullivan essentially campaign by appealing to ethnic affinity and personal ties, Walsh was the first candidate to take the issue of rent control seriously...
...says that while Sullivan and his fellow independents may oppose rent control, they have never been serious enough to try to abolish it. They knew that their blue-collar ethnic constituencies wouldn't stand for it. But Walsh was different. Walsh was the businessman's candidate, and he has remained their advocate, according to Cyr. Two kinds of independents emerged; the old style neighborhood' politicians and the young issue-oriented ones...
...figured that if there could be a representative for upscale conservatives, then it was time for Cambridge to have a city councillor for "downscale progressives," a term he uses to describe the liberal blue-collar ethnic consitutency he hopes to mobilize...
...believes that Cambridge politics centers on class. He maintains that the CCA has been buoyed by wealthy Cambridge liberals who have no contact with Cambridge's blue-collar ethnic base. He notes that he recently ran across one elderly woman who told him straight-faced that Harvard ran the CCA. "She really thought President Bok was making the decisions for them," he says. And Cyr says that impression reflects the estrangement of Cambridge blue collar ethnics from the CCA. As a result, Cyr shunned requests asking him to seek the CCA endorsement...