Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from others. Princeton Demographer Norman B. Ryder notes that "there is less likelihood of ethnic conflict when all groups are growing...
...prevent viewers from confusing their heroes, cop crops of the past few years featured gimmickry-wheelchairs, helicopters and lollipops. This year's trend is to the ethnic and geographical distribution of justice...
Rockefeller, in fact, should make it easier for Ford to govern. He appeals to those elements of the party that have never been a significant part of Ford's constituency: liberals and big-city ethnic groups. He also enjoys uniquely close relations with both business and labor and can attract the kind of talent needed to cope with Ford's biggest problem: inflation. Despite past battles with party conservatives, he is not likely to offend many people today. He has made at least a token peace with the right. Moreover, he is no longer the political threat...
...first fear that cable television has about public access is that fringe groups will be the ones to use it," says Sharon Portin of Channel 3 in Lynnwood, Wash. "Our experience has been the opposite." The most active participants are community groups: religious organizations, libraries, ethnic and minority associations...
...wield its power in peevish and arbitrary ways. Still Kadushin's study should reduce some of the paranoia that frequently afflicts non-New York intellectuals. For example, the reasons that Jews account for one half of his list are historical and cultural, not part of some ethnic conspiracy. Moreover, some of the nastiest splits and squabbles in literary New York have occurred between Jews. When Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz published Making It in 1968, for example, another Jewish editor and writer, who ranks slightly lower on the list, began referring to the book as "Kike's Peak...