Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...written and signed by a computer-addressed to him by name, repeating his surname in the body of the letter, and ending with what appears to be the authentic signature of a candidate. The letter may mention the voter's concern for the environment, his wife's ethnic heritage or the fact that he has three children in college. The voter may even answer the telephone and hear a familiar voice saying: "Good evening, this is President Nixon speaking to you by way of a recording...
Richard Daley declares martial law in Miami and tries to arrest the entire Democratic convention when, after 134 ballots, it nominates Jerry Rubin for President. Vice Presidential nominee Larry DiCara attempts to sooth Daley, citing the need for "ethnic balance". Declaring that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," Rubin says he will campaign on a radical platform of "ecological concern, cursing home reform and automobile safety...
...seems oldfashioned, more closely allied with the times of the original good Samaritan than with the thrust of contemporary society. Charity, the fundamental decency of one man helping a less fortunate fellow, seems hopelessly out of date in the era of the welfare state, social activism and racial and ethnic tensions...
Made for Each Other is the fitfully funny chronicle of their perhaps inevitable love affair. The trouble is that every ethnic stereotype that they represent is milked for every obvious laugh...
...heights of Kashmir through the flat plains of the Punjab down to the desert of western India. There the battle was being waged by bearded Sikhs wearing khaki turbans, tough, flat-faced Gurkhas, who carry a curved knife known as a kukri in their belts, and many other ethnic strains. Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients that are difficult to defend...