Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marquette Park in southwestern Chicago is one of the city's largest green spaces-a 321-acre expanse of grassy meadows, tennis courts, fishing lagoons and a golf course. Surrounding the park is a white "ethnic" community of 11,000 Lithuanian, Irish and Polish families-a vigorous old neighborhood that has tenaciously barred blacks and preserved itself as one of the city's last desirable white areas...
This fierce resistance permeates the park's ethnic clans. Many of Marquette's homeowners have already moved out of other neighborhoods that turned all black, taking heavy financial losses in the process. Less than four years ago, Carol Smith, a secretary, and her husband Bill, 33, a truck driver, sold their dwelling in now black West Englewood, a few blocks away, at a substantial loss. Says she: "Many of us have fled two or three times before. We have nowhere else to move...
...regular laff riot. Toronto Teacher John Atkin proposed establishing "designed, unifunctional anxiety-release centers in a community situation." Translation: maybe it would be a good idea to have a string of government-supported laugh parlors, where people could go to chuckle. A group of Canadian researchers reported on "Ethnic Humor as a Function of Social-Normative Incongruity on the Basis of Multiple Dependent Variables." The report questioned whether Chinese immigrants found Canadians funny, but reached no firm conclusions. Another paper analyzed "Glee Rates" of nursery-school children. Among its findings: playfulness decreases when kids are made to stand still...
...those people living at Currier House, where the group is staying, notice that there are limits to that friendship. As in past years, members of the group have tended to subdivide into ethnic sects--European Jews stay with European Jews, Oriental Jews with Oriental Jews, and Arabs with Arabs. Particularly poignant was the scene at Currier House the day after the Israeli raid on Entebbe, according to those present. Jews embraced each other jo yously, while the Arabs sat together silently, nervously...
...work laws and the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Bill. Another Udall backer, Ellen Kozak, 25, a Milwaukee attorney, is not pleased with Carter, but she is realistic. "We don't have anywhere else to go." More than that, whatever his strengths and weaknesses with the diverse ideological and ethnic blocs, Jimmy Carter had closed the door to none...