Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enlightened opinion in America should be the first to recognize, even the wisest constitution is no guarantee against bloody civil war, threats of secession, blatant corruption in Government, racial and ethnic conflict, and economic stagnation. If we expect these things in Africa, and not stable democratic Government, we shall have less cause for shock and disappointment in the years of consolidation that lie ahead...
...Nigerian Government, like the New York City Council, must contain a balance of ethnic elements to guard against the charge of domination by a single clique. And as the coup has demonstrated, any tribe with a large representation in the army itself (or in the Federal police force) must not be allowed to think that it has been encircled or unscrupulously outmaneuvered. As for the minor tribes, one may expect some of them to rebel occasionally and to be pacified, as under the British, by a combination of administrative reform and armed force...
...Under Seltzer's guidance, the Press successfully urged the rebuilding of much of Cleveland: a new airport, a "shoreway" along Lake Erie, a community college, and a transformation of downtown slums into office buildings and broad plazas. The Press has appealed to Cleveland's 40-odd ethnic groups by sending a "nationalities editor" abroad to file stories on Clevelanders' relatives still living in the old country. And editors take turns manning newsroom phones to answer readers' queries on everything from how to change a diaper to how to call an ambulance...
...Wolfe calls California the most American states Certainly the socio-economic trends that have been sweeping the state in the postwar year--vast urban sprawl, a sublimation of ethnic and class differences, an utter dependence on the automobile--have foreshadowed what is happening in the rest of the country...
Bogalusa ignores the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Until a year ago, the mail wasn't even delivered to Negro homes. White moderates -- there are a few -- apologize in whispers for their neighbors: "These people don't know any better; they're ethnic Mississippians...