Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infamous Section 18 crowd at the old Watson Rink? Well, on the road, Harvard goalies found the dead chickens, smelly fish, and empty beer cans being hurled in their direction. Goalies also can't blot out terms of endearment like "sieve," "red light," "funnel," nor comments on their ethnic origin and parent's sex habits...
...party's prayers: a new face with plenty of cash. Then came the surprise. This hitherto untested, pampered and occasionally standoffish scion of one of America's greatest fortunes turned out to be a political natural. Plunging into crowds on the sidewalks of New York, devouring whatever ethnic food was thrust into his hand, greeting everybody with a hearty "Hi ya, fella," he wowed downstate Democrats and upstate Republicans alike. Why are you doing this? he was invariably asked. "I sure don't need the money," he would reply with an infectious grin. Harriman never knew what...
With the audacity of the venturesome, Joseph Papp has assembled a black-Hispanic acting troupe, and its debut production is Julius Caesar. In the U.S. the problem of proper delivery of the Shakespearean line transcends ethnic background or race. Few, if any, American actors are qualified to speak in iambic pentameter. Lacking sufficient breath control, they pant when they should roar, and jangle the music and authority of poetic rhetoric...
...room darkened as the TV lights were switched off. People turned to chatting and eating. There were plates of hors d'oeuvres--mostly pork and shrimp--and drinks. Overhead were four painted lantern-covered light fixtures. On one wall was a mural of ethnic Chinese in native costume. Chairman Mao stood in the middle, fleshy and pink-faced in a gray collarless suit. Significantly, he towered over everyone else in the mural...
...great majority of the people are ethnic Chinese, or Han, as they have termed themselves since the Han dynasty (202 B.C.-A.D. 220). In addition, there are 54 separate national minorities, totaling 40 million. These include 1.7 million Mongols, who were once ruled by Genghis Khan, 1.3 million mountain-dwelling Tibetans, 500,000 Kazakh and 65,000 Kirgiz nomads, 7 million Thai-speaking Chuang, a scattering of Miao and Puyi peasants in the southwestern provinces, and caste-conscious Yi clans in Szechwan. Despite Peking's efforts to promote Mandarin as China's common language, the country still...