Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sociological or ideological superiority is as absurd as trying to settle a United Nations debate with a foot race up First Avenue. And the tactic can backfire. At Berlin, Hitler had to sit and squirm as an American black-the legendary Jesse Owens-clearly outshone Germany's Nordic "supermen" to win gold medals in four events. Still, rampant nationalism continues to mock the purported ideals of the Olympics. Since 1952 the focus has been mainly on whether the U.S. team, representing a free, democratic society, could beat the Russians, carrying the banner for Communism. This year, a powerful East...
...general, the President's selections were obvious enough (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and the like). They spread across a movie infantry-platoon ethnic spectrum. As New York Times Columnist Red Smith noted, Nixon "saluted young and old, white and black, Latin and Nordic, lefthander and righthander, Catholic and WASP, Jew and American Indian." No one would be offended, except perhaps a handful of Liechtensteiner and Tibetan diamond buffs...
When Novak gets down to serious, vote-winning politics, he stipulates a coalition of "blacks and ethnic whites" as "inevitable." While admitting that, to the blacks, all whites look alike for the moment, he asks wistfully: "Couldn't they distinguish a fellow sufferer under Nordic prejudice from a WASP...
Because of Steele, the Crimson may stand a chance in alpine events. However, the team has almost no power in the nordic ones...
...appraising once-over with "you're too much the industrious Lombard--besides, you're too hairy." Next to Malnate's animality, De Sica's aristocratic Jews are the ultimate wish-fulfillments to any Hitlerian dream of the perfect Aryan. Tall and fair-haired, they appear the descendents of some Nordic race, rather than the inheritors of a religion born on the Southern shore of the Mediterrancan...