Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Square aren't particularly faithful to the business area of their community. They pick up everyday commodities there, but Watertown, Arlington, Somerville and Boston rake in their share of Cambridge clientele also. The Central Square Association of Business and Professionals, Inc., is trying to deal with this problem and ethnic Santas are part of the solution. The organization has been around since 1934, but membership has doubled over the past year, to allow for seven committees with five to twelve members apiece. There are plenty of women active in business in Central Square--the managers of Eve Kanes and Fashion...
...last week. The paper was announcing the collapse of Lebanon's Cease Fire No. 12, which had kept political and sectarian violence down for most of the past month. Over the Independence Day weekend - normally a time of parties, parades and speeches praising the country's ethnic harmony - rival militias fought rocket, mortar and machine-gun battles along the front dividing Beirut's Moslem and Christian communities. Hundreds of kidnapings were reported by both sides. At week's end the fighting, which spilled over into the downtown banking and hotel district, had claimed more than...
...seek changes in the distribution of power within Lebanon. Under the existing political system, Lebanon's 40% Christian minority dominates both the military and the government. Karami said that his six-man Cabinet would be expanded to make it more representative of the country's varied ethnic makeup. No other specific reforms were promised, but the Premier did say that the constitution would be modified to redistribute the "national wealth among citizens" and that political changes would be introduced to "ensure the necessary adaptation with the requirements of a modern society." Leaders from the vast Palestinian refugee camps...
...Melting Pot. It ran for months on Broadway, and the phrase entered the language as an expression of faith in American homogeneity. That faith lasted until the 1960s, when blacks first challenged its homey apple-pie vision and prepared the way for a similar awakening among other ethnic groups...
Whites Ignored. The latest challenges to the old melting-pot theory come from the "new ethnicity," a movement that began in the early '70s and is continuing to spread among the descendants of Southern and Eastern European immigrant groups, including Italian, Polish, Portuguese-and just about every other variety of American but old-line Anglo-Saxon Protestants and the well-publicized blacks, American Indians and Hispanics. "White ethnics have been ignored in favor of blacks and Hispanics," claims Mary Sansone, executive director of New York's Congress of Italian-American Organizations. Now, taking a cue from the blacks...