Word: ethnic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served as director of the Pacific Coast Labor School from 1936 to 1941, when he went to Mills as chaplain. Since then, Chaplain Hedley has also become department chairman and professor of economics and sociology, teaches a senior course in labor problems and a junior course in ethnic groups...
Handlin concludes that Negro and Puerto Rican groups must develop closer communal institutions. He points out that these ethnic groups will continue to live in cohesive settlements, and does not believe that dispersal will solve economic and social prejudice...
...plurality rather than PR election, the CCA maintains, the Irish minority of 30% could control the two governing bodies. On occasions, another large ethnic group, the Italians, might gain some representation. But the numerous other subgroups within the city, particularly the greater-Harvard, greater-Brattle St. area of wealthy and upper middle classes, would have no say in City government. With PR, however, the CCA can organize support for a slate of candidates and elect some of them...
...prognosis for the City Council heavily favors the incumbents, plus Walter J. Sullivan. This prediction seems inevitable, from the consideration of recent history. Cambridge voting simply follows personality, name, ethnic background, and familiarity, rather than issues. Since the incumbents have remained in the public eye, some of them for years and all of them at least more than the new candidates, they must be favored...
...Women's University in 1957, the troupe has an active repertory of some 40 folk dances practiced in all areas of the Philippines, from the mountain villages of the north to the Moslem country of the south. The dances were as varied as the Arabic, Malayan and Spanish ethnic influences that formed them: a Bontoc war dance had loinclothed dancers running and bounding about in a blur of flailing shields and spears; a wedding-party dance had a suggestion of Spain in the gentle sway of hip and shoulder. In one of the evening's high points...