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...Connor furthered his audacious challenge of the Governor by entering a primary against him in September. O'Connor waged a vigorous but financially poor campaign and emerged--some-how--as the victor by 50,000 votes. He carried Boston in the primary and attracted the votes of several ethnic groups previously considered Furcolo property. Then, as the Saltonstall camp discarded files and files on the Governor's vulnerable record in office and as some state reisdents rejoiced over Furcolo's defeat, O'Connor set out to unseat "Salty," the senior senator whose devotional following bewilders many...
...belief that the public will is answered (a result usually taken to be more important than being right, except by Mr. Nixon who seems to think that the popular mandate is right). Politics is often the only way to resolve and release the tensions of economic, social, and ethnic conflicts...
Aside from the French Canadians and those of Eastern European descent, Brooklyn does not contain the matrix of ethnic minorities found in a big city. There are only a handful of Jews, and virtually no Negroes. About 40 per cent of the people are Catholic. In two days of polling, the CRIMSON survey covered almost every street in the town, selecting at random every fourth or fifth house. At the end of this period, one out of every seven households had been contacted...
...today seem to think of themselves as the missing link between the hills, or the cotton fields, or Child, or wherever those songs come from, and the great Northern hordes clutching ticket stubs. If Miss Baez is no missing link, at least she is a quiet liason. Neither overly ethnic, nor over-arranged, she sings in a clear, narrative manner and her control of her extraordinarily rich voice achieves a highly dramatic effect...
...American Nego is not a recent immigrant. But unlike the white immigrant groups, the Negroes did not join together in ethnic communities upon arrival in the "land of the free" and were thus not able together to accustom themselves to the new society and to pursue mobility aims in the classic Lower East Side-to-"respectable" apartments-to-suburbia fashion of the other major immigrant communities, Slavery meant that members of the same African village or tribe were forcibly separated and settled in different parts of this country and even that members of the same family were split from each...