Word: ethnicities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of state and local conferences around the nation -while generally avoiding the kind of party fund-raising events that might bring forth his old sulfurous partisanship. He will also try to work closely with the nation's Governors and, unlikely as it may sound, court ethnic groups, including blacks. Such liaison was supposed to be an Agnew assignment all along...
Twenty of us from New Rochelle arrived there one recent morning, courtesy of Local Board Number Nine, to see and be seen and, perhaps, reclassified. Our group was an ethnic reflection of our city: Italians and Irish from the South End, by the Sound, Blacks out of the battered center city, and Jews, clutching medical reports and X-rays, from the North...
...itself. But he did not feel that he or his films should propose alternatives. His attitudes reflected an art for art's sake creed. Though he felt that American students had gotten the FLQ situation confused, that what held French-Canadians back industrially is their own repressive, Church-oriented ethnic tradition, he does not want to make a film on the subject: "It would have to be too informational.... I'm interested in the emotions...
vard Yard for use as a municipal parking lot. The proposal missed approval by one vote. Last year he persuaded the Council to make Piazza Leprechauno the official name of Harvard Square, in honor of Cambridge's two dominant ethnic groups...
...been torn by the worst upheavals of Franco's 31-year rule. The regime's barefisted attack on the Basques, who were tortured by police and tried in a military court under a questionable "banditry and terrorism law," sparked opposition not only from the 2,000,000 ethnic Basques of northern Spain, but also from the country's Catholic clergy, its lawyers, its labor leaders, its students and some Cabinet ministers. Even more threatening was the backlash; army hard-liners demanded special powers to crack down on pro-Basque demonstrations, and hundreds of thousands of aging Falangists...