Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversy began in 1979, when the Minneapolis campus newspaper printed a humor issue, which caused "a lot of public outcry among readers because of" religious and ethnic jokes, a current editor said earlier this week...
...political hustlers--from Marcus Garvey to Eldredge Cleaver--but they don't usually turn up as students at top-level law schools like Harvard Law. Then again, maybe they should be at places like Harvard Law, for, God knows, there have been enough white political hustlers--of every ethnic description, from Irish to WASP--around the place...
...from his birthplace on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to become Hud's unwelcome neighbor. Gaetano's goodly impulse is to detox Hud: "You don't have to die." But Hud sees it as an intrusion of Wop on Wasp. He hurls endless ethnic slurs at Gaetano. To salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest finale of Act I, Gaetano swings both parts of a refrigerator door at Hud, knocks him cold, puts...
With the ideological dichotomy between the two candidates so clear, the race has seen an unprecedented amount of ethnic campaigning Lehrman is Jewish, while most of the state's Jews are consistently liberal Cuomo is an Italian Catholic, while most of his fellows are much more conservative. The result is a feverish attempt by both candidates to raid the other's ethnic group while holding onto their...
...vote, which he has termed crucial to his success. This fervor indeed led him during the primary campaign against Koch to make the little noticed but really quite remarkable--observation that second only to the family home, his biggest single investment is in Israeli bonds Lehrman has matched this ethnic campaigning...