Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never approached the power or political skill of James Michael Curley, but it is obvious the former Boston mayor is Vellucci's role model. Curley perfected the urban ethnic style of politics that some call "urban populism," and Vellucci has been an apt pupil and improviser...
Saturday's events will include workshops on such topics as relationships between student governments and boards of trustees, women's athletics and women's studies, lasting from 10 a.m. to noon at the Hilles Library Conference rooms, followed by an ethnic dance session in Currier House at 2 p.m., Mary E. Stokes '78, treasurer at RUS, said yesterday...
...obvious contrast with the hardened thugs who people the prison, given his layered haircut, handsome WASP features and sharp-looking sports suit. Introduced to the assembled inmates as Clark Davis (Bruce Davison), the new prisoner immediately attracts thepaternalistic attention of the leader among the white prisoners, a tough Irish ethnic named Charlie "Longshoe" Murphy (Joseph Carberry). Longshoe willingly takes Davis under his wing, quickly briefing him on the subtleties of dealing with the floor's black and Hispanic prisoners. Clearly in stir for the first time, Davis impresses his guardian as being a greenhorn in need of some protection...
...luck of the primary has left The Big Apple with a quartet of Little Names in the running for the mayorality. At least there is some color--Barry Farber, a radio talk-show host with a Carolina drawl and a neat knack for hyperbole, has been busily stumping the ethnic street corners, tarring his Republican opponent, State Sen. Roy M. Goodman '51, in at least eight different languages. For his part, Goodman--whom Farber describes as "a Lindsay clone"--has waged a yeomanlike battle against the Conservative nominee's barbs on one side, and massive desertions from his campaign staff...
There are other results. High unemployment rates set one group of workers against other groups of workers against other groups trying to get into the job market. Established union see "affirmative actions" by women and ethnic minorities as intolerable competition for already scarce jobs. Further, social action groups are forced to compete with each other for the little that any of them receive, for to the degree that military expenditures consume public resources, needed social programs are reduced. The biggest losers are of course the poor, and those either already unemployed or on fixed incomes...