Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PENNYWHISTLERS: Folksongs of Eastern Europe (Nonesuch). For those who like their folk music ethnic, a group of seven American girls offers a pastiche of infrequently heard items from the banks of the Danube: Bulgarian planting songs, Hungarian love lyrics, Croatian hymns. Many of them are sung a capella-sustained by the septet's own strong harmony...
...Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., where Ted Shawn's dance festival features a cross section of ballet, modern and ethnic dance in a barnlike theater. Twelve new works will be seen...
...work used to be so popular that she was able to choose from a stream of lucrative commissions, most notably in 1930 when Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History asked her to portray all the races of mankind, a project that sent her around the world posing ethnic types from Senegal to the Solomons and resulted in 101 true-to-life bronze figures; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Social Governor." Though the state has a heavily Roman Catholic electorate (50%), the Republican ticket was artfully assembled to appeal to just about every religious and ethnic group. Gen gras, like Dempsey, is a Catholic, and so are the Republican candidates for lieutenant governor and comptroller, John Gerardo and Tom Mayers. The nominee for attorney general is a Negro, William Graham, and the secretary of state's slot is filled by Mrs. Phyllis Shulman, a Jew. J. Tyler Patterson Jr., running for treasurer, is the only old-line Yankee. Though he contributed $5,000 to Dempsey...
Decline of Indignation. In a city where newspaper columnists are almost always civic boosters, Mike Royko, 33, is a constant critic. A foe of all forms of cant and pomp, he carries on a love-hate affair with his home town. He writes tenderly of its ethnic neighborhoods, its traditions and folkways; he fires at will at its politicians and their pretensions. When public officials raced to outdo each other issuing outraged statements after an attempted gangland killing, Royko sadly noted the decline in the "quality of indignant statements." If enough such statements "come pouring out after someone is shot...