Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussion of the students to the working relationships back in the kitchen. A considerable number of the dining hall workers are Greek, Puerto Rican or Portuguese, many of whom speak only a little English. According to this group of Lowell workers, there is little tension among the different ethnic groups, despite the communication gaps. There is, however, an understandable tendency toward a self-imposed segregation during the leisure hours, as workers cluster at tables with those who speak their language. And, according to the American-born employees the workers who cannot converse with the students tend to be the most...
Jockeys are born into all kinds of backgrounds?Arcaro to the tough streets of ethnic Cincinnati, Jorge Velasquez to the barrios of Panama?but a handicapper of naturals would take odds on the Walton, Ky., home of Tex arid Myra Cauthen. Walton is small (pop. 2,200) and Bluegrass (60 miles north of Lexington). Horse country is one place where a kid could grow up small and not develop an inferiority complex. He could imagine himself a jockey. And when his father is a blacksmith and his mother a second-generation owner and a trainer, when he looks forward...
...master of invective, Mencken never failed to beguile his audience. Even Southerners were amused when he labeled Dixie the Sahara of the Bozart. And his classic encyclopedia, The American Language, brilliantly traced the wellsprings of slang and ethnic argot. But in larger matters he was more naive than the booboisie. When real goose-steppers came along, Mencken failed to perceive the German danger and, as Fecher notes, "brushed off Nazi treatment of the Jews." His literary criticism was sometimes blind to contemporary talent: he thought Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was "full of pink hooey" and found...
What evidence there is, in fact, seems to support Levinson. Each of the 40 men chosen--10 biologists, novelists, executives and workers between the ages of 35 and 45, from varied social class, ethnic, religious and educational backgrounds--went through or are currently undergoing a remarkably similar process of development at remarkably similar times of life. Levinson says he chose only men because he did not want to introduce another variable in his study--and since he could therefore only study one sex he opted for males because he wanted to understand himself better in the process. He makes...
...sending homeowners into angry protests against local taxes and spending of all sorts. Says James Tobin, president of the National Taxpayers United of Illinois: "People are in a rebellious mood. They feel school taxes are out of control when they have to pay for courses on kindness and ethnic studies, while reading and writing skills decline...