Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large Midwest states the smoothly functioning Edmund Muskie organization makes him the leader in the race for the nomination. The Muskie candidacy also has drawn an array of impressive endorsements from Midwest political leaders. His Polish origins make him popular in the ethnic wards of Chicago, Cleveland and Milwaukee. Rural voters have been impressed by his folksy manner. Only in Minnesota and South Dakota, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern territory, is he lagging behind...
...utmost to solve it. His efforts have centered on an attempt to reduce tensions between the Serbs, Yugoslavia's dominant group (8.5 million), and the neighboring Croats, who are the country's second most numerous nationality (4.3 million) and politically its most troublesome. Relations between the two ethnic groups, never good, were tragically bloodied during World War II when pro-Nazi Croats slaughtered some 100,000 Serbs living in Croatia...
...American Jewish Committee and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, the informal talks produced, according to Father Robert Stephanopoulos, "a real sense of affinity we cannot always feel with Western Christians." Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, who originally suggested the dialogues, cited the two groups' common religious-ethnic heritage and Mediterranean background. Indeed, said Tanenbaum, though Greek and Hebrew philosophies are often regarded as opposites, rabbinic Judaism was actually a "creative synthesis" that absorbed some thought patterns and institutions of Hellenism...
...organize an otherwise slighted constituency. Her efforts in the black community could prove particularly important. If blacks are to gain a real share of influence in the political process, they must set up political organizations which are capable of mobilizing black voters at election time. Turnouts of all ethnic varieties in poor areas have been so low as to permit conservative machines to carry them election after election--a situation that must be changed...
...hulking six-footer's early performances were greeted with sneers, Shawn found an ally in the late Ruth St. Denis; they were married in 1914. Together they reigned during the 1920s as the nation's top modern dance team, their repertory drawing heavily on American and ethnic themes. They also formed the Denishawn schools, which trained Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and other stars. The schools folded when the couple separated in 1931. After that Shawn attacked the male dancer's lavender image by selecting college athletes for an all-male dance troupe that toured the country under...