Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When George Lorinczi, a Hungarian-born Washington lawyer, visited Budapest last month, he heard racial epithets on the street directed at people around him. In the anti-Communist tirades of self-professed liberals, there were pointed references to the predominance of Jews in the regime of dictator ! Matyas Rakosi in the early 1950s. "People are now rolling words off their tongues that would have made them jailbait two years ago," says Lorinczi...
Virginia has always been in the forefront of racial change. It was at Jamestown in 1619 that the first shipload of captive Africans later destined for slavery disembarked. It was at Appomattox in 1865 that the Confederacy surrendered. It was in Virginia in the 1950s that men who fancied themselves learned penned some of the last erudite-sounding but morally bankrupt justifications for segregation. And it will be in Richmond on Jan. 13 that there will be a black hand on the Bible when Lawrence Douglas Wilder is sworn in as Virginia's 73rd Governor. It is not only...
Prince Edward County never had racial violence, or the lynching meanness that seeped up in those years in Alabama and Mississippi. But the bruise of the past is deep. The students segregate themselves, black clusters and white clusters, in the school cafeteria. They struggle to describe the abiding significance of race in Prince Edward County. They cannot quite find the word for what they suspect in the hearts of the other race. Not "prejudice." Not "hatred," not "intolerance," exactly. It is, they say, something hidden, and always there...
Although Ishihara does not champion the notion of Japanese racial superiority, he argues that race has been a crucial factor in shaping America's "biased, incorrect views" of Japan. "The modern civilization built by whites is coming to a close," he writes, "and I feel that this is adding to the irritation of Americans." He adds that the U.S. is "becoming hysterical because a crucial part of military technology is controlled by an Asian country...
...crude sense does not necessarily motivate people to misinform pollsters, Hickman says. Rather, some respondents succumb to a misguided urge to give answers they think will please the questioner. Whatever the reason, pollsters in black-white contests should learn to take the discrepancy into account -- at least until such racial match-ups cease to be novelties...