Word: ethnically
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...packed him off to the Aran Islands, conceivably the most significant trip in modern dramatic literature, for out of it came Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. Again, if Yeats had not spoon-fed Dublin's infant Abbey Theater with the heady ethnic pabulum of Cathleen ni Houlihan, there would have been neither stage nor actors for the memorable tragi-comedies of Sean O'Casey. And above all, there was the matchless mature poetry of Yeats himself, not popular balladry as he had hoped, not mythic, mysterious and magical as he had planned...
Pusey began his remarks by commenting on the "difficulties" of Harvard's Baccalaureate Service, established when a homogeneous group from the same ethnic background quite naturally met for common prayer. The tradition is maintained now, though services of prayer "do not come so easily to us" and the participants are from widely differing religious and cultural backgrounds...
President Pusey added that this great ethnic diversity comes in an age of "widespread spiritual rootlessness" and at a time when "all leaders are crying out for unifying purposes...
...maimed and meandering book. Author O'Connor is less concerned with the fates of Charlie Carmody and Father Kennedy than with the fate of the entire Irish-American community in an unnamed city that is obviously Boston. What he feels elegiac about is the death of a separate ethnic cultural identity. While he prizes the U.S. melting pot, he dreads the homogenized young American to whom a wake is about as dated as a brogue. And so he tries to capture not only the wakes but the tangy, smoky drift of Irish talk, the parochial Irish viewpoint that every...
...element in this homogenization of U.S. Protestantism is the decline of ethnic differences between Americans; many a church used to be kept alive by the national loyalties of first-generation citizens and the parental loyalties of their children. Another element is the pressure on Protestantism of an expanding Roman Catholic Church, which is currently growing more than twice as fast as the leading Protestant denominations...