Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are angry poems, nostalgic poems, cynical about the dregs of like poems, ethnic tales, and dreams. Like any publication, there are failures, but most of these words-put-together share successfully what Roberts' opening editorial calls "an attempt to liberate black from the confines of its sound, to bury stereotypes in porcelain blankets, where they belong, to move freedom past the dissolvement of exterior to the cultivation of interior--where differences multiply and thrive...
...Crimson has thus created the false impression that I am criticizing the performance of black students as a whole, instead of emphasizing the need to distinguish a satisfactory from an unsatisfactory student, regardless of ethnic origin. By so distorting the picture The Crimson has injured the black community, and also those (including me) who are sympathetic with their needs and aspirations. Indeed, I do not blame anyone for getting angry at my views as portrayed by The Crimson...
...anti-Washington mood, and they are voting for "outsiders" who are not tainted by "politics as usual." Endorsements by top political leaders have meant little. Labor leaders have failed to deliver their rank-and-file votes. The winning candidates are sweeping across voting blocs whether by age, income or ethnic background. Voters, it seems, are rebelling against something...
...made. Given current trends -and even these are contingent-there will be increasing numbers of Third World citizens and a proportionately decreasing number of Westerners. There will be smaller concentrations of young Americans, and larger colonies of old ones. Working hours will drop; the political power of women and ethnic minorities will rise. Leisure will expand; traditional food and fuel supplies will diminish. Longevity will increase-and so will the dangers of ecological mismanagement and military conflict...
...stream of take-offs of TV just the way it is today. L.A. crime dramas get the treatment with "Police Comic," a one-minute bit in which a stand-up joking cop makes the bad guy give up with one joke. Weak? You should hear the joke. The new ethnic sitcoms are covered with "Ramon and Sonja," where a typical gypsy family, a cab-driver, two whores and a "faggot" (I'd like a peanut for every time that word is used; I could run for president) live together in disharmony and squalor. Mother whore to father: Our son would...