Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...athletes. "It was my first time out of the country," she says, "and I was in shock. I had never seen Westerners before, or Negroes or television or Coca-Cola or eyes different from mine." Everything was so new and strange, in fact, that the prospect of running against Caucasian girls embarrassed her. She finished last in her qualifying heat in the 80-meter hurdles...
...Orthodontists have to realize that the facial proportions of different races vary," Yen said yesterday. "What would be the proper treatment for a Caucasian may be completely wrong for a person of another race," he added...
Grinspoon added that "covert racism" may have played a part in anti-marijuana legislation. He explained that marijuana users in America were "predominantly non-caucasian" at the time the law was passed, and that speculations of harmful after-effects may have been linked to marijuana by way of racial prejudice...
...commercial crap around here," said Stan Edelson, director of the Caravan Theatre. We sat across from each other in his basement office before Friday night's performance of Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle as he talked about the formation of his semi-repertoire group. "We're interested in finding and performing the things that reach people," he told me in an almost inaudibly quiet voice. "It can be fucking or fighting or loving or hating: in that senses we're a political theatre...
...will give to the inhabitants of this island a portion of that land for their own, to be held in trust by the American Indian Government-for as long as the sun shall rise and the rivers go down to the sea-to be administered by the Bureau of Caucasian Affairs. We will further guide the inhabitants in the proper way of living. We will offer them our religion, our education, our lifeways, in order to help them achieve our level of civilization and thus raise them and all their white brothers up from their savage and unhappy state...