Word: ethnically
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...audience of 400 at the Loeb Drama Center, Nadine Gordimer claimed that "South Africa lacks the culture from which literature draws its real substance." She quoted Reinhold Niebuhr's criteria for a national super-entity, noting that her country has no common language, philosophy, or historical experience, no ethnic kinship, and common...
...laugh, in a sort of brotherhood of humor, with white men about their own problems, can joke successfully about the N.A.A.C.P. as well as the P.T.A. Gregory's emergence suggests that there may be a relaxation in the longstanding, well-meant but dreary taboo against "racial" or "ethnic" humor, and that it is once again possible to tell a Jewish, Italian or Negro joke without being regarded as a bigot...
...Hasty Pudding Club. The atrocities of the National Socialist regime seem to have had an effect other than that desired by Hitler; they have made the public acutely conscious of the sufferings of the Jews. Auschwitz and Dachau created a wide and sympathetic audience for the outpourings of such ethnic authors as Herman Wouk and Philip Roth. This, however, has not always been kind to the Jews themselves...
Jackie provides decor and more, sometimes delivers graceful little speeches to ethnic groups in whispery French, Spanish or Italian. Her retentive mind vacuums odd details from the newspapers and matches them with her own inside information...
...last-ditch French plan for ethnic partition had always been more of a threat than a realistic alternative. Under it, the big coastal cities were expected to remain as European enclaves, safely French in sentiment. But the heavy abstention rate among city Moslems indicated a weight of pro-F.L.N. sentiment that makes the plan totally unrealistic...