Word: tokening
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...characters are not quite solidly realized, their sentiments most emphatically are. A frustrated actor (Ron O'Neal), who is light enough to cross the color line but not dark enough to be hired as a token Negro in a Broadway show, delivers a bravura monologue on what whites expect of blacks that is hilarious, yet drenched in the acid insights of a people inured to pain. Gordone is too honest to lie about a bright brotherly tomorrow, but in thunder and in laughter he tells the racial truth about today...
Burning Butts. In Athens, the Greek military junta was busily playing oneupmanship with its critics: in order to forestall token strikes threatened for May Day, the junta declared it a public holiday. It also sponsored a workers' rally in Salonika, complete with government-approved signs calling for a 40-hour week and "profits participation...
...others felt good (they had given a full hearing to the dovish opposition), and there was minimal unpleasantness." Historian Eric Goldman, who left the White House in 1966 after nearly three unhappy years as President Johnson's "intellectual-in-residence," feels that the intellectual must go further than token dissent: "If you disagree with a basic policy of a President and you are working for him, you have two choices: 1) try to change his policy but go on working for him; 2) quit...
...eyes are the source of endless black-white misunderstanding. In the presence of elders or superiors, American Negroes have long averted their eyes, just as blacks are accustomed to do in West Africa. Nonetheless, whites still interpret such eye aversion as an insult or a token of inattention. Pondering the implications of eye aversion, Linguistic Anthropologist Edward T. Hall says: "How often has a polite black schoolchild cast his eyes downward as a sign of respect, and failed to meet a teacher's eye when questioned? How many teachers have thought students were 'tuned out' because they...
...meter pole, Harvard upped the stroke to 38 in an effort to close the widening distance between the two boats, Penn was too far in front, however, and only had to mount a token sprint at 38 over the last 100 meters to clinch...