Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long an expert on political appeal to crucial ethnic minorities, Scott has keyed appeals to every discernible group in the state. Measurable success has resulted from several of them, including an endorsement of Scott by several influential NAACP leaders and by the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Negro newspapers...
...convention only strengthened Bellotti. Volpe's best issue--the inaction and inefficiency of the Peabody administration--had been blunted. Second, and more decisive, the Volpe strategy for gathering votes was undone. The outregistered Republican party has had to turn increasingly to candidates like Edward Brooke or John Volpe with ethnic appeal in traditional Democratic districts. But in this election Volpe cannot count on cross-party voting by Italo-Americans...
What follows are views of life among such ethnic fringe groups as Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews, a band of Rumanian gypsies at Coney Island, a voodoo cult in Harlem, Japanese Buddhists on Riverside Drive, New Year revelers in Chinatown. Paradoxically, while poking through the city's sociological byways, Gaisseau misses the singular flavor of New York almost entirely. Like many other well-meaning tourists, he makes a superficial tour of the melting pot but overlooks the fire that keeps it going-the fast, fierce, savvy modernity of a great metropolis...
Sometimes irresponsibility has marked his Senate campaign too. In a race overburdened by appeals to ethnic groups, Keating has urged Isreal's admission to NATO, insinuated that Kennedy has Nazi sympathies, and accused Kennedy of deliberately impuning Italian character by his handling of the Valachi testimony...
Today, as the Church in the city faces a disintegration of the ethnic based churches, it must turn to new groups of city-dwellers, often Negro, who, Handlin says, are often "historically, economically, and socially remote from the Church." "It is the kind of relationship which the Church establishes with these new people that will determine the Church's role in the rest of this century," he said...