Word: tokenisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race riots within two years. Last February in Sofia, Bulgarian militiamen wielded clubs against 200 Ghanaians who were marching down the main street demanding nothing more than their own campus organization. In Moscow, Africans have been smoldering for years over thinly disguised racial discrimination. Except for a token number of Russian students, the dining rooms and dormitories of Lumumba U. (which Africans sardonically call "Apartheid U.") are segregated. Africans find it difficult to date a Russian girl. Students squirm at the stares they get in public and object to poor service they often receive in restaurants. Despite professions of brotherhood...
...correct the misconception of Artemis of Ephesus you printed in a caption [Dec. 13]. "The usual figure of the Ephesian Artemis, which was said in the first instance to have fallen from heaven, is in the form of a female with many breasts, the symbol of productivity or a token of her function as the all-nourishing mother." Ostrich eggs indeed...
Broadway lags. Pickets last year paraded outside How to Succeed and Subways Are for Sleeping because there were no Negroes in either cast. Now David Merrick, who produced Subways, is putting token Negroes into his new productions, 110 in the Shade (one Negro in the chorus) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (three Negro bit parts). There were only 20 shows in all of Broadway and off Broadway last season in which parts were filled by Negroes when whites could have done the job. The number of Negroes in these so-called integrated roles has not significantly...
...Republican Governor of the state of Mississippi? There has been no such thing since 1876, when one Adelbert Ames resigned under fire in his Reconstruction regime. In most elections since then the G.O.P. has either put up no candidate or furnished merely token opposition. About all the winner of a Democratic gubernatorial primary had to do was clear his throat and start polishing his inaugural speech...
...facto school segregation. Chicago's board insisted that something had to be done about the problem. The egotistic Willis refused to admit that there was any problem. He ignored board orders to speed up the transfer of bright students of both races, even though this was only a token move toward a better balance. Parents took Willis to court, and last week the court ruled against him. Willis quit, claiming: "I can no longer discharge my responsibilities since the present practice is counter to all the fundamentals of good board-staff relationships in public education...