Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reward its customers with an annual cash rebate on their purchases (perhaps $50 for every $1,000 worth of goods bought) and, eventually, dividends on their stock. There will be other returns as well. The store promises to create 50 new jobs, outdo local chain stores in offering such "ethnic appeal" items as chitlins and hog maws. Far more important in an area whose residents insist that they are being gouged by white storeowners, the supermarket's prices will reflect the scant buying power of its customers...
...influence on the basis of two celebrated debacles. During the 1936 presidential campaign, the old Literary Digest ran a mail poll and was wrong, while three more scientific pollsters were right. Those three-George H. Gallup, Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley-conducted interviews among a predetermined mix of ethnic, income and age groups that seemed representative of the U.S. population. The other turning point was in 1948, when the pollsters again used this "quota system" of sampling-but were wrong. The U.S. had become so complex that picking just the right population mix was too difficult...
...school class, and now assistant human-rights commissioner in New York City. At first glance, the chronicle of Portnoy's pain, rooted as it is in Jewishness and the urban environment, may appear to have only specialized appeal, but Roth gives it a universality that reaches beyond ethnic boundaries. It is a coda of rage and savagely honest self-lashing reminiscent of the performances of the late Lenny Bruce. No detail is varnished, no lust or act nice-Nellied as Portnoy complains, clowns and laments in his desperate efforts to claw his way to sanity. The result...
...days last year, black demonstrators led by the Rev. James Groppi, 37, a Milwaukee-born Italian-American, paraded from the ghetto into the Polish-occupied South Side and the city's other ethnic sections to demand a city open-housing ordinance. Negroes constitute only 10% of the city's 781,600 population, and for a time the marches threatened to polarize white opinion against the Groppians, who were greeted on the South Side with abuse and flying bottles...
...faction is led by Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Its leadership believes in an innovating activist national executive. Although many of its members back the former Attorney General for emotional or ethnic reasons, the Kennedy faction seems committed to unconventional solu- tions to poverty, crime, prejudice, and leftist revolutions abroad. Kennedy's most articulate supporters believe that time has come to move beyond the social palliatives of the past 35 years to insure decent living standards, education, and employment for all citizens. The mood of many Kennedy supporters is characterized by disgust at the sterility of most liberals' response to national...