Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settled back on the couch in front of the tube; on the screen Ronald Reagan was bashing various ethnic minorities into submission in the jungleland classic "Tropical Zone." The movie's soundtrack, probably a valuable primer to Reagan's foreign policy, was drowned out by the thrashing feedback screaming out of the Dinosaur's tapedeck. "Man, this band really sucks," he decided, replacing it with a virtually identical tonal mash...
...underlying goal of national service is to bring people together from different ethnic and economic backgrounds to work in a common effort to serve the nation's military and domestic needs. But voluntary programs like the CCC and New York's City Volunteer Corps -- an organization that enlists youths to work for one year performing such tasks as tutoring schoolchildren and renovating shelters for the homeless -- generally enroll a disproportionate number of poor and minority youths...
Ribman, the author of Journey of the Fifth Horse and Cold Storage, has conjured up the Richelieu, a baroque spa somewhere in the mountains of Europe, and he has populated it with a selection of guests who have the cultural and ethnic diversity of a World War II movie bomber crew: the French gigolo; the Levantine low-life; Mimosa Klein, the Jewish poet from Wellesley; and more, including Cesare Bottivicci, the Italian mutant prognosticator. The physical and emotional excess of these characters matches their surroundings, particularly the immense sweet table itself, laden with creamy goodies and attended by bewigged...
...religion. Hinduism is more like an ethnic...
Women as well as men can become devotees of Krishna, and Vaishnavas come from a wide variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds. In fact, emphasizing such external distinctions contradicts one of the central tenets of Krishna--the idea that the body is illusory. The Hare Krishnas, although they do not consider themselves ascetics, believe that bodily gratification stifles the soul and prevents man from finding the path to true happiness, which is god, or Krishna. The idea that we can become happy through our bodies is an illusion. People think that they are their