Word: tokenized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Admittedly, it is not that The Crimson has never covered AWARE events. There have been some token mentionings of the panel discussions, films, CommUNITY picnics, events and forums which AWARE has provided over the organization's four year history...
...endless (and generally mindless) debate over affirmative action has been about as productive as the PGA drive to make sure that every country club has its token Black...
...women behind the cameras, this burst of activity is a powerful signal. They are finally beginning to achieve something more than token status as directors, and more and more of them are starting to sustain coherent careers in Hollywood. Best of all, the range of their work belies the conventional notion that holds that women can be entrusted only with delicately nuanced little films dealing with intricate personal relationships. Most of them would agree that any director needs, as Coolidge says, "a strong male side and a strong female side." Good directors, she says, demonstrate "a nurturing ability," in order...
Following the Welcome, Welcome speech ("Welcome! Welcome!"), the Salient Dignitaries and Nobel laureates were introduced to the audience. Tokens were thrown during the Token Speech, music was played during the Keynote Speech and burps were uttered during the Traditional Soda Pop Ceremony...
...increasingly common disorder is known as the Token Black Syndrome. According to Price Cobbs, co-author of Black Rage, TBS often afflicts blacks who were the first of their families to graduate from college or land a high- paying job. TBS has become more widespread in recent years, as a white backlash against affirmative action has swept across the nation. On campuses and in the workplace, the prevailing view is that blacks are not required -- and are unable -- to meet the same standards for admission and promotion as whites...