Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While there can be no doubt that blacks have been--and are--the most systematically and dramatically exploited racial or ethnic group in the nation, the fact remains that, in absolute numbers, there are more whites below the poverty line than blacks. (It is a fact that, somehow, seems lost on most of this academic community...
Peace among South Asian ethnic groups was shattered when the colonial rulers handed power to corrupt and elitist native bureaucracies, Lee said. "Free enterprise was stifled because of ideology, or because the entrepreneurs belonged to minority groups," he added, and many of the area's best minds migrated to the West...
This wholesale miscasting might have been redeemed in part if the songs and dances possessed ethnic veracity and virility. As it is, the bouzouki music sounds as if it was piped in by Muzak, and the lyrics are insipid. The characteristic tone of Levantine lament is scarcely heard, since music that weeps and words soaked in pain might dismay the theater-party ladies. The dances have the look of old folk dances-any old folk. Greek fire is missing. Zorba danced because words could not contain his vaulting spirit. Bernardi clodhops, while the supporting cast dances by a timetable...
...months, dissidents of the pro-Wal-lace right and antiwar left threatened to fragment the nation's two-party alignment. The Alabamian, it was feared, would sunder the New Deal coalition of labor, Negroes and ethnic minorities by luring away hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers; disaffected Dem-ocrats-and most Negroes-would sit out the election in disgust or apathy. Richard Nixon predicted confidently that a "silent center" would rise up with an overwhelming mandate for the Republican Party...
Over-Refined. This satire of contrasting intellectual and ethnic types is a model (if not a parody) of what is often described as New Yorker fiction: the nostalgic revelation of an overrefined sensibility that emerges preferably in an unusual setting. More important, Mosby is a cameo that illustrates the dangers of the reductive, aggressively critical intellect...