Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more. TV has embarked on a new era of candor, with all the lines emphatically drawn in. During the season that began last week, programmers will actually be competing with each other to trace the largest number of touchy-and heretofore forbidden -ethnic, sexual and psychological themes. Religious quirks, wife swapping, child abuse, lesbianism, venereal disease-all the old taboos will be toppling. Marcus Welby last week joined the abortion debate with a patient who had not one but two in a single year. An upcoming ABC Movie of the Week will feature Hal Holbrook explaining his homosexuality...
Morris said he would like the Houses to recoup some of the influence over students that they have lost in past years. He said recent pressures to create a racial, ethnic and sexual balance in the Houses, "were so strong and put into effect so rapidly that it strained the House system. The problem is to recover some of the values that existed before...
...ethnics comprise some 80 million people, and they are concentrated mostly in the big states that decide elections. The Heritage Council caters to a total of 32 different nationalities-more than the typical Republican knew existed a few years ago, or cared to know. Among those wooed are Albanians and Vietnamese, Hungarians and Lithuanians, Croats, Slovenes and Serbs, Azerbaijanis, Ukrainians and Scandinavians. When Nixon was running in 1968, a mere 7,000 ethnic volunteers helped in his campaign. This year 50,000 ethnics are working for the President, and twice that number are expected to turn out before the race...
...Heritage Council is presenting ethnics with as attractive an alternative as possible. It cranks out news releases for some 600 ethnic newspapers around the U.S. Whenever possible, the releases are in English. "We want to unite, we don't want to divide," says Laszlo Pasztor, the council director and a Hungarian freedom fighter who fled to the U.S. when the Soviets invaded in 1956. "The English language is a strong, binding force." Nevertheless, translation is provided for any nationality that would rather have its politics in its native tongue. There is also an ample collection of foreign-language tapes...
Kazen maintained that her course dealt with the entire ethnic experience and not only with Chicanos and Boricuas. The students rejected this interpretation and threatened to disrupt her class...