Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medieval monachal center of Cluny, held a major celebration. All 45 of the brothers were on hand for the occasion, half of them traveling to France from work abroad (two came from an ecumenical center at Stoughton, Mass.), and in their white, hooded robes they were an impressive token of devotion in the tiny chapel. But no outsider would readily recognize the most unusual thing about the monks of Taizé, who call themselves simply members of "the community": they are not Catholic; every one of them is a Protestant...
...were in 125 west Texas districts. There were 22 in one Miami school and 490 in another that had only eight white students. In the rest of the South, the number rose from 199 the year before to 400. Yet even that tiny gain, most of it token integration, was the biggest in history. What will happen this year...
...Premier Eyskens proclaimed: "The U.N. must not intervene in the internal affairs of Katanga." But Belgian officials conceded privately that it was only a matter of time and began looking for a face-saving way to get Katanga back into the Congo. The government pulled back a token 1,500 of the 10,000 troops in Katanga, and the Belgian National Bank quietly advanced the Congo Central Bank an undisclosed sum (reportedly $8,000,000) to meet the government's August payroll. Congo President Joseph Kasavubu declared: "I now see our affairs in the colors of the rose-though...
...month by soft-pedaling his own segregationist sympathies, pushing instead an ambitious program of building schools and luring industry. His runoff opponent, Dr. I. (for Isaac) Beverly Lake, 53, ex-professor of law at Wake Forest College, fired up rebel-yelling segregationist rallies by damning North Carolina's token school integration, promised to "create a climate of public opinion in strong opposition to integration" and draw closer to the diehard Deep South...
...lilt to life. The hills and fields triumphed with fresh green grass. In the old towns, the giant oaks and elms threw rich new shade across the white colonial mansions and the square, peaked-roofed clapboard houses. In fresh-minted subdivisions, sycamore striplings strained at their stakes to promise token cover for the bare houses of glass, steel, stone and shingle that have sprouted (19 million since 1940) as from a bottomless nest of Chinese boxes. School buses headed toward the season's last mile; power mowers and outboard motors pulsed the season's first promise. Fragrance...