Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City's diverse and massive ethnic groups give politicians nightmares and pollsters the palsy. City census figures show 15% of New Yorkers are Negro, 8% Puerto Rican, 11% Italian, 4% Irish. There are an estimated 1,800,000 Jews, 3,400,000 Roman Catholics, and 1,700,000 Protestants. And there are 3½ times as many registered Democrats as Republicans. Thus, the rare Republican candidate who wins the mayoralty (the last was Fiorello La Guardia in 1941) must straddle a multitude of attitudes. He must seem liberal enough to win over people who normally vote Democratic, correct...
Daisy, an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl, started to cry whenever her third-grade teacher began a reading lesson-but she grinned when the class sang to the tune of Frere Jacques: "Are you happy, are you happy?" Edward, a Negro first-grader, stared at his reader, eyes glazed-but he joined in when everybody sang, "Good night, room; good night, light; good night, window." Nicky, a third-grader whose family had just arrived from Puerto Rico, grunted only a few words in class: "Yes," "No," "Thirsty"-but he flailed his arms along with the others in pantomime...
...contrived to effect his catharsis. Why should Nazemann, who has been living in New York for twenty years, exposed to the same influences, suddenly wake up? Why should he be able to recall traumas from repression when anyone else would need an analyst? The death of a Puerto Rican boy who intercepts a bullet meant for Nazemann seems far too circumstantial. Also questionable is Lumet's use of stomach-turners, such as the sequence where Nazemann jabs a long pin through his hand...
...enter candidates. This meant that Joaquin Balaguer, 57, who served as President before and after the death of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, could run. as well as Antonio Guzman, the Minister of Agriculture under deposed President Juan Bosch-and even Bosch himself, if he ever chooses to leave his Puerto Rican exile...
...that the problem was one for the OAS. At OAS headquarters in Washington, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker urgently advised Latin Americans to honor their pledge for a multination military force to help the U.S. keep order. And indeed, the first Latin Americans started arriving: 250 Honduran infantrymen, 20 Costa Rican policemen. Others were on their way from Nicaragua, probably from Brazil...