Word: token
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made for the monstrous wrongs done them. But Shaw's conception of martyrdom makes it seem less a matter of conscience that an attention-getting device on a grandiose scale. Some crimes-and the murder of the Jews is certainly one-dwarf atonement and defy retributive justice. A token of evil can be caged in a glass booth, but evil itself can never be exorcised there...
...some areas, the token integration that the civil rights laws left was enough. Negroes were content to be able to vote, even if their vote was accepted reluctantly. They were willing, for a while, to ride the busses, even though hostile stares greeted them. Jobs given reluctantly were a little better than none at all. Half a share of American Life would not be satisfactory as a permanent solution, but perhaps it would do for several years...
...South--mobilization of Northern sentiment. After the CBS special, SRRP received 20,000 pounds of raw hamburger from a Northern donor. The hamburger itself might be of some help--it could give perhaps a tenth of the poor families one wholesome meal. But it would obviously be only a token effort, unless SRRP could exploit it to change the national programs...
...into houses, it is unfair to make a student's chance of taking one of the courses rely so heavily on the luck of the geographical draw. While the courses have been open to Radcliffe and to students in other houses, Wilcox says there has been no more than "token integration." About 80 per cent of the Harvard students in most of the courses have been from the house in which it is being offered. One faculty member even suggested during last winter's debates that such discrimination might be legally actionable...
...practically an article of faith that political platforms have major planks dealing with the U.S. economy. Yet in 1968 both the Republicans and Democrats-bothered by what seem to be more pressing problems, such as the Viet Nam war, law and order, and civil rights-paid only token attention to the economy. By so doing, they ruled out as a major political issue what has certainly become a matter for concern in almost every U.S. home: the rising cost of living...