Word: ethnically
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...cringing figure during the London blitz, and as perhaps the most ruthless, malign businessman in U.S. history. To Lasky it was Joe's dough alone that made Jack President and Bobby the nation's second most powerful man. And the father did it all to avenge an ethnic insult. "Having suffered all the slights and indignities Brahmin Boston could contrive for its despised minorities [the new Irish], Joseph P. Kennedy had set out to beat his persecutors at their own game." Lasky even makes it sound sinister when President Kennedy "dropped the nation's business...
...achieve such happy results, Producers William Ritman and Bernard Gersten signed up dancers for seven different programs designed to exhibit the breadth of American dance-modern, ethnic and ballet. They presented some of the nation's star dancers: New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Edward Villella, Tap Dancer Paul Draper and the ethnic dancers of the Donald McKayle company. Even Ruth St. Denis, the 85-year-old queen of American dance, was persuaded to make a rare appearance...
...difficult to liberalize the Ulbricht regime as to get the Russians out of East Germany. The Jaspers line thus may temper but does not eliminate the basic urge for reunification in a country which achieved national unity later than other European nations and is fiercely insistent on its ethnic identity. That fact is at the heart of Bonn's opposition to any East-West agreement that would formally or psychologically seal the status quo in Germany and Europe. Says a Western ambassador in Bonn: "The issue of German unity still has more explosive potential than any other issue...
Large Chinese and Indian ethnic minorities in Malaya have created major problems for that country since independence, according to Kandiah Arianayaam, an official of the Malayan Ministry of Education. The Malayan government, trying to meet minority demands for cultural pluralism, offers primary education conducted in three languages: Chinese, Malayan, and English...
...ideal integration situation, says Psychiatrist Robert Coles, after studying Southern schools, is apparently a middle-class school with diverse ethnic groups and high teaching standards. In a forthcoming report, sponsored by the Southern Regional Council and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Coles adds that young children mix naturally, ignoring adult tensions. Teen-agers take longer, but in the course of a year begin to see "them" as individuals to be judged on personal merit. As for standards, both races generally work as hard as ever. Says Coles: "We have yet to hear a Southern...