Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eastern third of the city, the concrete towers of sprawling MIT and the barren public housing blocs in the Model Cities area from an uneasy triangle with the crowded frame duplexes in the multi-ethnic working-class neighborhood of East Cambridge. Tensions are strong in this area: the percentage of blacks in East Cambridge is the lowest in the city, while the percentage in the neighboring public housing is the highest...
...them from local voter rolls and prevented them from having much of an impact on city politics. While radicals took over the city government of Berkeley two years ago, council elections in tradition-tied Cambridge last year produced only a shaky liberal majority in a City Council shared with ethnic and commercial interests...
...pour the proceeds from the Sunset Series into the neighborhood programs. These neighborhood programs make up the bulk of Summerthing, and are its chief value. The emphasis is on participatory activities. There is some music, but it is primarily local. If you find yourself wanting to wander, Boston's ethnic neighborhoods are among the most solid in the country. Again, check the Phoenix or Boston After Dark for details. Perhaps the emphasis is on ethnic music in each neighborhood. That certainly is the case in Roxbury...
...home, in addition to all the intractable ailments of a postindustrial society-inflation, recession, pollution, alienation-he is confronted with peculiarly American conditions. These include the incredible ethnic diversity, with each group clamoring more loudly than ever for its rightful share in America; the racial conflict that now burdens every social transaction; the brutal decay of the great cities that divides the nation into the poor and black on the one hand and the affluent and white on the other. No people expect more than Americans. The President must somehow maintain the nation's freedoms and right to dissent...
...cannot remember anything comparable. Probably you have to go back to 1932 to find as divisive an atmosphere. A lot of centrifugal forces are at work in our society. The ethnic ones, women's rights, youth rights, the Viet Nam War-all the concerns about polarization. Within the economic field, perhaps, the slowing of growth in the past couple of years has been particularly important. When we have an expanding economy, it really alleviates social frictions. People get something out of the economy, and they are not envious of everybody else. Now, because they have not been doing...