Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia is not only defending its Far Eastern borders but also holding back the Maoist yellow peril that threatens humanity. For the Russians, who have so long regarded themselves as the providers of aid and arms to other Communist countries, the response has been deeply dis appointing. Requests for token military units or even observers to come to Siberia to join the Red Army in its vigil on the long, lonely border have reportedly been refused. No other Communists want to be caught in the thrashings of the two giants...
...problem basically seemed to be a lack of inspiration. Anyone who ever watched the team run its token lap before practice knows this. With the exception of a precious few, the squad crawls through this lap at minimum speed. It's a joke in every sense of the word. This was reflected in the games most of the time...
...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...
...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...