Word: tokenisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduced as legislation, the outcry was so shrill that the bill was overwhelmingly defeated, amid cries that the whole idea was "scandalous," "filthy" and "bestial." But in ten years, the mood in Parliament - and in the country - has changed. Last week the House of Commons passed the bill over token opposition, and it will soon go on the statute books...
...embarrassed at having to defend Americans. Wortham's counsel produced character affidavits from everyone from the mayor of North Little Rock to Congressman Wilbur Mills, told the court that "Wortham is not a person of such social danger as the prosecutor represented," asked for a token sentence of three months...
...discriminatory hiring practices. The problem of discrimination cuts deeper than local law. It may well involve factors within the profession that the Law School doesn't wish to take on. Clearly, Harvard has the power, should it choose to exercise it, to move the Legal Establishment to more than token compliance. It could well take the lead in denying the use of its facilities for hiring purposes to firms that after careful investigation are found to reject applicants on the basis of race, religion, or sex. Harvard could act -- if it wished...
...C.I.O. locals, representing such craftsmen as carpenters and electricians, actually opposed higher minimum wages for busboys, maids and other nonunion hotel employees, complaining that the increased costs might force some hotels to close and cut down on employment of trade-unionists. Though some member unions have taken at least token steps to ease discrimination against Negroes, many have yet to support the civil rights drive as fervently as they might. Moreover, labor continues to be peculiarly apathetic about corruption. Last week in New York City, Martin Rarback, a painters' union ex-official under indictment on charges of pocketing...
...cameraman Hinkle and thus gives Wiplash the trumped-up lawsuit he's searching for, is written more or less like every stock Hollywood nice-guy over the last two decades. Either he's a slap at Uncle-Tomism or, more likely, at the latest While liberal stereotype of the token Negro. At any rate, he can't be serious...