Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found she could catch them both on different nights.) It may be tourists getting so caught up in the music at the ethnic dances of the Texas Folklife Festival that they jump onstage with the costumed dancers. Or Jazz Vibraphonist Gary Burton performing in Boston's Copley Square during one of the seven concerts a day scattered across the city by Summerthing...
Then, in an obvious pitch to ethnic groups in which his support is eroding, he claimed that the U.S. is "not a melting pot. We are more like a pot of minestrone." In case his audience did not savor that line, he went on to say that among the top-level Italian Americans in his Administration was Vice President "Mondali." There was a strained chuckle...
Cambridge, a crowded city of 100,000, is more than a bureaucratic support system for the Square. It is a true Eastern city: ethnic, overdeveloped, and, in some places, tired...
...fail to understand why every fad, like the playing of portable radios in public [July 23], must be scrutinized under a microscope to determine how many of a given ethnic group participate and why. "Box toting" is as much a craze as goldfish swallowing and marathon contests. This, as the others, will pass...
...during May and June to an estimated 22,000 in July, apparently as one result of last month's U.N. -sponsored 65-country conference on refugees in Geneva. There, Hanoi officials pledged to slow the exodus from Viet Nam, which in four years has consisted of 550,000 ethnic Chinese, who are being forced out because they are a hated minority, and 350,000 Vietnamese who do not want to live under Communist rule. Ironically, however, the curb on the exodus will only increase the misery of the many people who wish to leave but now cannot...