Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elves, in which the words elves, shoemaker and shoes do not appear. In the same way, the frogfish, from Ginn & Co.'s Across the Fence, is a creature of formula writing, whose intent may be simplification but whose consequence is too often mystification. That mystification is compounded by ethnic, religious, political and other groups that have lobbied their attitudes and taboos into texts. In Maryland, Tom Sawyer no longer says "honest injun." Just "honest." And the bland Watergate reference from McGraw-Hill's fifth-grade social-studies textbook United States is a result of the almost universal avoidance...
...time zone clusters industrial Illinois as well as farm states like Kansas and Southern states like Alabama. And so across the nation. Time-zoned primaries would force all national candidates to address themselves once a month to a full cross section of the nation, less fettered by special interests, ethnic or racial groups...
...Republican Party, born to free the blacks, has been accepted there as the guardian of the whites? If so, then a major step in the realignment of U.S. politics has taken place. In the suburbs, did homeowners decisively join in Reagan's victory, or did they split, by ethnic origins, to give a significant share to Mondale? Did working-class Catholics sway to their church's leadership-or to their union leaders...
...stirring of black separatism linked another phenomenon in 1984-another underswell from a distant past now requiring full recognition. It could be called the ethnic emergence...
Indira Gandhi is no more. Assassinated on October 30, 1984, she passes into legend as one of the most charismatic leaders of our time. For 16 years she dedicated herself to preserving the unity of a country of unimaginable cultural, social and ethnic diversity...