Word: tokenisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard, John Lindsay's victory in New York, however local and empirical, augurs well for the G.O.P. By the same token, it gives new hope to the two-party system, which has been almost asphyxiated by unchallenged Democratic rule in metropolitan areas. For the ultimate justification of the American political system is that the party in opposition, whether Democratic or Republican, should be an alternate government capable of taking over -as Eisenhower Republicans did from Truman Democrats-with hardly a tremor. In last week's elections, it was mainly the adaptable, nondoctrinaire Republican who upheld that ideal...
...qualified applicants have to be turned away each yar. Other public institutions, from hospitals to orphanages, are archaic and inadequate. Highways are clogged, while the state road program lags for lack of funds. Though its rivers and air are hopelessly polluted, the Garden State has only a token anti-pollution program...
...provided Cambridge with honest, though often-times sluggish government. Because there is no dominant political power, showdown issues are often sidestepped. Only when some sort of full or partial consensus has been reached is progress made, and this is admittedly a slow process. By the same token, it guards against excesses and protects the interest of many of the city's minorities--ethnic groups as well as the city's biggest minority, the "university-oriented" community. In a city as diversified as Cambridge, there is a lot to be said for having the broad representation that PR provides...
...against such intolerable conditions that the seamen struck. Better pay and decent food, shore leave, protection against brutality-these were among the modest demands of men who continued to show their deposed officers elaborate courtesy and swore unshakable fidelity to the Crown. After token conciliation at Spithead, the government set its chin. In the Nore anchorage at the Thames mouth, a troubled old admiral named Charles Buckner listened with some sympathy to the complaints presented by the elected "president" of the mutineers, Richard Parker, the son of a grain merchant who had once been an officer himself but got cashiered...
...Edwards, who is now a Federal Circuit Judge, immediately antagonized the police by insisting on equal treatment for Negroes. His insistence paid off: a 1963 incident (a policeman shot a Negro prostitute; Edwards ruled it self-defense) that would have sparked a riot in many cities, led to only token picketing in Detroit...