Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brackets, ethnic groups and other social subdivisions, it is the college-age group that is least cohesive politically...
...winners of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor announced last week were an eclectic roll call of America's ethnic heritage; among the recipients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Walter Cronkite and Muhammad Ali. But the list was even more varied than the award's sponsors realized. James Tamer, 74, a Michigan country-club owner honored as a Lebanese-American activist, turned out to be a convicted felon as well. Tamer served five years for a 1934 bank robbery. In 1979 federal prosecutors alleged he had operated a Las Vegas hotel casino as a front man for Vito Giacalone, a reputed...
Although he has become a folk hero in his native country, controversies have attended his career. Noting his fondness for Western literary forms (all of Soyinka's work is written in English), some African critics have accused him of shunning his ethnic origins. Such complaints may continue, but the Nobel Prize is likely to make Soyinka an even more formidable spokesman on his continent. The day after it was announced, Nigeria awarded him its highest national honor...
Listing Herschbach's accomplishments hardly does justice to his contributions to the undergraduate community, but notable in his five-year term as Currier House co-master are his support for the Dance Marathon, the music program, as well as ethnic awareness--for which he and his wife, Georgene, were given an honorary award by the Black Students Association...
...more time: Raw Deal, which came and went early this summer, was an oddity in that although it starred Schwarzenegger, it had a plot, characters, and a hero simple, brutal, and ethnic enough for Arnold to play without undue stretching of credibility. It almost works--the tension created as Arnold gets in dutch with some mobsters is legitimate enough, and you wonder how he's going to squeeze out of it, he being large and not easily squeezed...