Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only slightly more respectable than grave robbers, but no one seemed to care: more green-and-gold Irish Republican flags draped the Brooklyn waterfront, and news of the Easter Rebellion even eclipsed the Dodgers' daily dispatches from Ebbets Field. All around the country Irish communities staged a week-long ethnic festival to celebrate the lost glory they hoped their homeland was about to regain. And when the British army's decidedly unromantic artillery turned the amateur revolutionaries into professional corpses, it was the Irish in America who cried the loudest. Black bunting swathed the Brooklyn waterfront in mourning...
...Katangese have raised the sharpest challenge yet to Mobutu. A Belgian-trained soldier and former journalist, Mobutu has managed to unify a nation with a bloody history of chaos and tribal war. Parceling out privileged positions and sinecures to leaders of Zaïre's 200 ethnic groups, Mobutu in return demanded and got almost feudal loyalty. High-living and profligate, he tried to burnish his image as a 20th century chief by such flamboyant stunts as the "Rumble in the Jungle" between Heavy-weights Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974, which lost the government $4.1 million...
...forget his ancestors. So thought De Tocqueville, the observer who for more than a century trapped the American character in his shrewd apercus. That character is too mutable to stay contained. Today it is frantically climbing family trees. After Haley's comet, not only blacks but all ethnic groups saw themselves whole, traceable across oceans and centuries to the remotest ancestral village (see LIVING...
Traditionally held in Boston Garden, the show usually features a fight between the best boxer from South Boston and a pugilist from some other ethnic background. But this year's locale was the Boston Arena--a building so decrepit that its rats should strike for better living conditions--and the feature fight matched two black men: "Marvelous Marvin Hagler," The North American Middleweight Champion, and Guyana's Reggie Ford, the 1972 Pan-American Games champion...
...style and existence, convinced that somebody else was getting everything, while it was getting nothing more than the shaft." Boston's cursing, stone-throwing resistance to busing was not the reaction of "a liberal city being hypocritical." Instead, it was "a parochial city with a long history of ethnic and racial distrust and bigotry" integrating its schools with fear, anger and some violence-but with remarkably few deaths or serious injuries...