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...this is no surprise. The saccharine praise Mondale has heaped upon the token vice-presidential suitors visiting his Minnesota home and his public courting of the thoroughly over-rated New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo are all a direct result of the candidate's excessive pandering to just about anyone or anything that would listen...
REPRESENTATION will surely grow this November, as voter registration drives aimed at Hispanics take effect. But the numbers will mean little if leaders do not make themselves heard at this summer's conventions. In addition to token mention in keynote addresses, issues of particular interest to Hispanics--like immigration, education, social programs, and civil rights must receive attention by the Democratic nominee and in the platforms of both parties...
...University's actions during the traumatic McCarthy years has yet emerged. Was the University a shining example of devotion to free speech, willing to protect and even nurture professors and students who admitted they had been communists? Or did Harvard, while erecting a facade of virtue through token acts and meaningless public statements, quietly pursue a private policy of caution and cooperation with the witch-hunters...
Corporation members themselves don't hesitate to acknowledge that a good deal of tokenism goes into who is selected--the board includes a token professor, a token Boston-area businessman, a lawyer, and a token handyman for whatever project currently occupies the University's attention. And filling those roles are one of the country's leading physicists, the chairman of the mammoth Boston-based Gillette Corporation, the head of a large group of Boston mutual funds, a star Cleveland tax attorney, and the president of a huge shipping company who doubles as one of the $350 million Harvard Campaign...
...Line, the ones who, hearing any noise from the subway tunnel-closing doors or turning wheels or the wheezing sound of rushing air-dash down the steps, sure that they will miss the train. My caller was stopping already, before he had even paid for his token, to look at the map and decide how to get where he was going...