Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children, particularly, another delight is the "Folk Life Festival," which is devoted to U.S. and Canadian ethnic groups and their crafts. In one section, aromatic with Scottish haggis* acooking, clansmen show how to make bagpipes, boots, quilts and kilts, and invite youngsters to join in. In another section there are Indian tepees and longhouses, and a sluice where kids can pan for gold...
...drinks nor cusses. But while Buzhardt saw fit to delete every "goddam," "Jesus Christ" and other examples of presidential irreverence, he left intact a good many four, five, ten-and twelve-letter specimens of Anglo-Saxon earthiness. These fell before Nixon's own blue pencil. So too did some ethnic slurs used by Nixon. According to the New York Times, the President referred to Judge Sirica as "that wop," spoke of "those Jewboys" in the Securities and Exchange Commission, and described L. Patrick Gray III, then acting FBI chief, as a "thick-necked mick." According to CBS, Nixon used...
Besides the monetary factor, there was another, more ideological issue behind Bok's decision. In his letter to the Third World committee rejecting the proposal for the center, Bok wrote that Harvard "has normally declined" to give money to extracurricular programs for "particular ethnic, national or religious groups...
...committee said Harvard already has enough money to pay for the center, and that the center is not for particular ethnic, national or religious groups but instead would exist "for the benefit of all Harvard University students...
Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci said the Council vote to ban the free assembly of citizens is dangerous because of the precedent it sets. He said he fears that in the future the Council will vote to prohibit other concerts and ethnic festivals in the city...