Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century of authoritarian practices, especially in the South, where over 70 percent of Afro-American lived until 1960, freedom from violence (both judicial and vigilante) on a stale experienced by no other American group save the American Indians, and Creedom from neurotic customary prejudices of a sort no White ethnic group endured whether in access to public colleges, to housing markets, to bank credit to licensing and Zoning rights, to job markets...
Animalen, however, was not the best choice to inaugurate the Ordway operatically, even though it reflects both the region's Scandinavian ethnic background and the Minnesota Opera's long-standing commitment to new works. More a politically pacifist, musically jejune cabaret than an opera, it concerns a convention of animals that are worried about the nuclear arms race. They lecture representatives from the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the importance of avoiding war, and later turn up at a peace conference in Vienna. There a romance between a Las Vegas-type American entertainer and a Soviet chanteuse ends...
...Harvard Foundation was established to improve relations among racial and ethnic groups within the University. The presidential committee that recommended the formation of the Foundation envisioned a body in which students would feel they had a significant share in the formulation of policies. To quote the committee's proposal, "student participation in it [the Foundation] at the fundamental level is most important." Since that time, the Harvard Foundation, specifically its current director S. Allen Counter, has forgotten the spirit of its conception...
...look no further than the first floor of University Hall where Dr. Counter, through careless management, has turned the Foundation into a shell of its intended self. Dr. Counter talks of improving race relations, but that is ridiculous when one realizes that he has lost contact with he various ethnic groups on campus. Dr. Counter is leaving his position at the conclusion of the current academic year, but one may hope that time he rereads the report of 1981 that spawned "his" organization...
...organizing Africans worldwide, he added that he wants to liberate Africans from an immoral society and restore Africa to her former greatness so that Blacks no longer have to be "the only ethnic group in America ashamed of their heritage...