Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divided, dispirited party. For four years, the Democratic organization had been neglected by Lyndon Johnson; the potent coalition assembled by Franklin Roosevelt was crumbling. The young were ignoring the party, and the Old South had deserted it. The big-city Democratic machines were frayed from the stresses of racial tension and urban decay. In fact, the most vocal critics of Democratic policies were Democrats themselves. Some dissenters were even praying for a debacle that would shatter the old patterns forever. Only then, they argued, could a new party be built without the encumbrances of obsolete ward heelers and aging urban...
Like today's futurists, many middle-class white students, though genuinely indignant about economic and racial inequalities, have begun judging the country as if its material problems had virtually been solved. Progress, they argue from this philosophical perspective, has in many ways made men worse, not better. No matter how dazzling, GNP can never spell GOD. Rockets, computers, the fair distribution of enough goods and services have little value except as machinery used to create a society. That society is valuable only in terms of the caliber of its people, their sense of justice and honesty, their appreciation...
Pungent Odors. Britain's racial troubles are a hangover from its Imperial past. For generations, British colonizers told their subjects in an empire that in those days of glory stretched around the world that they, too, were British citizens. Taking Britain at its word, a continuing stream of immigrants, mainly Indians and Pakistanis from Asia and Negroes from the West Indies and Africa, in recent years have sought jobs and new homes in Britain. Though they constitute only 2% of the population, their tendency to huddle together has created pockets, often ghettos, of nonwhite residents in London...
Powell has clearly seized on a ready-made issue of enormous appeal that cuts across class and party lines. Though he is a much more thoughtful man than George Wallace, to whom he is often compared in Britain, Powell stands to profit from the same well of vitriolic racial feelings-and could, like Wallace, influence the shape and direction of Britain's future elections...
...others have worked their way through a number of religions without finding spiritual satisfaction. The most notable seeker to date is a onetime Mormon elder who tried 30 different religions before joining the sect. Negroes who join the movement claim to be impressed by the absence of racial prejudice. Whatever their motives for joining, converts generally admire the warmth and zeal of the sect's prayer meetings. "I felt like I wasn't really alone any more," says Linda Chernov, 25, a Hollywood costume designer. "I was surrounded by people who were going to protect me." Initiates sometimes...