Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attraction for visitors was the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife, spread across 50 acres along the Washington Mall beside the 2,000-ft. reflecting pool. The festival celebrates and demonstrates ethnic and cultural diversity in American life, from Ukrainian folk dances to Indian lacrosse matches. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo took in the sights...
...problem is overkill and that problem may be unavoidable. Every sociological subdivision, ethnic group and branch of the performing arts wants to get in on the act, to prove it's their Bicentennial, too, whether it is or not. Some of this clamoring to participate can be analyzed as a desire to claim a share of the Bicentennial profits. Witness the squalid tug of war between Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and every other city that wants to boost its tourism by being designated America's Bicentennial City. Enough of this patriotic crap about the United States; the real question is which...
...about the war in Viet Nam), surfeited by an American standard of living, many Americans, then, were tempted to become refugees from the American quest. Some felt that the decent, prosperous life the earlier Americans wanted for their grandchildren had not been achieved by them. But belligerent campaigns for ethnic and racial pride fragmented the nation with new chauvinisms. The fertile pleasures of an immigrant nation were displaced by cold-blooded quotas - unashamed power struggles of Americans against themselves. The struggle for minority rights became a demand for minority veto...
...Princess Bili, whose frenzied affection is divided between an absent Italian gigolo and an ever-present Sealyham dog that "sings" D'ye Ken John Peel? Waiting upon this odd lot of aging Everymen is an equally bizarre collection of German, Swiss, French and Italian servants who trade ethnic insults and intrigue against (and occasionally fall in love with) one another...
...Palmer Park Municipal Golf Course, and among its players are some of the city's best-and best-known-black golfers. The aim is action, bankrolls are at the ready, and the style is straight soul. Indeed, to play Palmer Park is to take a lesson in lively ethnic semantics...