Word: xenophobia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ocean Hill Brownsville) as to how much more good she, the post debutante, was doing by volunteer teaching in a ghetto one night a week. Another member of the crowd obviously fearing that I was a student, asked if my Daddy had bought that fancy English car (innuendoes of xenophobia). One woman, who identified her husband as Yale '42, did come over to apologize for the way in which "members of my generation be have...
...stamp is unmistakable. It is not the McCarthy-i??, whipping up a petit bourgeois storm of xenophobia by means of innuendo and aspersion. The intimations and half-truths are there, to be sure. But the mood and the mode-the slickness and the manipulation-belong to Madison Avenue. Creating a market that does not exist, pushing a luxury product like revolution fabricated out of cheap verbal plastic: that is Hyland's bag. I for one was disappointed. The issue should have been on glossy paper, and the photos in color...
...that astronauts have set foot on the moon before Nixon has set foot in a ghetto. That is what tears and burns: the invisible pain ignored, the visible pain ignored, leaders genuflecting before our conquest (Agnew raising a martini to Mars) of rock so far away, and the humiliating xenophobia which followed. There is no escape from the feeling that the war coverage is stylized and vacuous, that the painstaking objectivity is little more than censorship. Information is valuable only insofar as it educates and therefore changes and refines minds; but since TV will not offend its market with opinions...
David J. Swanger, Ed.D. candidate, arguing for the inclusion of alumni, attacked the "xenophobia" of the community meeting. "The faculty wanted alumni on the committee to make it more conservative," Swanger admitted, "but our definition of community should not be exclusive...
...signals that emanate from Peking are erratic, vague and contradictory. But they hint that after the long isolation and xenophobia of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China is beginning to take notice of the outside world again. For two years, shrill Maoist Red Guardism ruled, and China seemed almost without a foreign policy. Now, the more moderate professionals appear to be moving back in charge at the Foreign Office in Peking. With their return, China's relations with the world can be expected to become more rational and more flexible. There will likely be no major policy changes...