Word: mainstream
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With his work on A.E.C. legislation and in the Defense Department, Price says he "began to be convinced that in science there was important relevance for the future of government. In the early days of the country, scientists were in the mainstream of political thought, and it seems they will have a profound influence on future history." There are, he adds, "really intriguing problems" in the "often unexpected results of technological change...
...does its greatest damage, perhaps, in segregating athletes from the mainstream of college life. Meals in the House dining rooms, no matter how unfortunate in their culinary aspects, are clearly a very good way of making new friends. Athletes miss out on this to some extent; and athletes are a rather isolated group to begin with--given the need for long afternoon practices, trips to other colleges...
There has never before been such a reality of world history as there is today. Areas which heretofore have had no real history as such, and tribal-centered areas, are being drawn irreversibly into the mainstream of world history...
...Lasker, one of the "small" books that "I play with my left hand" (others: Roosevelt in Retrospect, The Riddle of MacArthur). After the 1960 election, he intends to write his long-planned companion to Inside U.S.A., a book on U.S. politics. He will also edit Doubleday's ambitious Mainstream of Modern World History series. He is making notes for an autobiographical book on the people and events he has covered, and is pondering a biography of his longtime friend Sinclair Lewis. Next year he plans to go Inside Australia. It is virtually the earth's last unguntherized land...
Marlboro lies far outside the cultural mainstream, in its location 15 miles from Brattleboro and 3000 feet above sea level, well into the Green Mountains. There are no theatres, opera houses or research libraries nearby. In such a location the prospective students must have an inner-directed capacity for life in the wilderness or else they will find themselves bored when the long winter sets...