Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues remains to be seen. Nixon has not yet produced a sheaf of detailed proposals on major questions, although he talks a hard line on Viet Nam and calls for budget cutting at home. Nixon has also made some thoughtful statements on poverty here and abroad, on racial issues and other subjects that indicate he is developing new proposals for use when he considers the time right. Rockefeller in recent months has been studiously sticking to state affairs, venturing afield as a rule only in his capacity as chairman of the Republican Governors Association policy committee. Seven months...
...EDUCATION. Racial discrimination and de facto segregation should be fought vigorously by invoking civil rights laws and by rewarding cooperative schools with substantial federal aid. Federal support also should be increased for adult-education programs to eliminate illiteracy, to "dramatically" improve schools in the ghetto and poverty areas, and to provide higher education for poor students...
...wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony in the fact that a svelte Negro beauty, who craves Mortimer's body, insists on a pay-as-you-go arrangement in order to cater to what she presumes is his sense of racial superiority...
...criminal court had erred in deciding Bruce's routine was devoid of social significance. While agreeing that the act was coarse and profane beyond the bounds of acceptable candor, Judge Streit said that "integral parts of the performance included comments on the problems of contemporary society, religious hypocrisy, racial prejudices and human tensions." In effect, the reversal of Solomon's conviction served to vindicate Bruce as well...
Morse by no means holds the U.S. entirely responsible. Both the Cubans and the British in Palestine turned away refugee ships. The Australians, when asked if they would offer the Jews a haven, replied: "As we have no racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one." There were exceptions, but all too true, says Morse, was the epitaph that Polish-Jewish Poet Itzhak Katznelson wrote in his diary before he was gassed at Auschwitz: "Sure enough, the nations did not interfere, nor did they protest, nor shake their heads, nor did they warn the murderers, never a murmur...