Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After more than a century of isolation from the U.S. mainstream, as Rowan points out, the Midwest's 75,000 Indians (who got U.S. citizenship only 33 years ago) have been encouraged by the Federal Government in recent years to quit the "rural slums" of the reservations. Says Rowan: "Most of the younger generation sees that the arrow is broken, the tribe is dead." But, poorly educated, lacking technical skills and elementary economic judgment, they enter the white man's world with "handicaps that burden no other group of Americans...
...most of all the cinema, can say significantly that is not bound to offend somebody. But the offense is less dangerous than the suffocation of the art. Modern drama and literature have shown a deep concern for the darker side of life; to cut the cinema off from this mainstream of intense concern and bewilderment in modern art is to allow it to become more and more a picture of a mythical and unreal world...
...Central Line. At 38, Bernstein must tell himself that his talents have so far produced great excitement but no great works. He has leaped and dived and didoed like a scintillating porpoise in the mainstream of musical life, without having changed its course. Neither has any other contemporary musician of his age?but Bernstein insists that he must follow "that central line." as he once called it, "the line of mystery and fire" that, as he believes, is followed by all truly dedicated artists...
...oldest American college outside the U.S., Robert has for 92 years lived in the mainstream of Turkish history. It has survived wars, pestilence and revolution. Thus, as Historian Arnold Toynbee once wrote, it has fulfilled "one of the great educational needs of our time; its achievement has been to provide a home of learning, kept free from the fierce political controversies of the present age, in which young men of all religions and all nationalities have been able to receive a first-rate modern education." Last week, as its seventh president, Duncan Ballantine, 42, onetime head of Oregon...
...Horton," President Pusey commented last night, "with his deep concern for the Church Universal, has the point of view, the skill, the experience, and the learning both to lead the Divinity School into the mainstream of scholarly activity within the University, and at the same time to keep its work helpfully related to living religion in the churches and among the people of this nation and the world. We feel singularly fortunate to have secured his services to help us in the advancing program of our Divinity School...