Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center for Wolfsburg, Germany (home of the Volkswagen works), a museum in Denmark, a semicircular apartment house in Bremen and a new opera house for Essen. Says U.S. Architect Eero Saarinen, himself the son of a famed Finnish architect: "In the postwar decade, Aalto seemed headed away from the mainstream of architecture-until now. The development of the last few years has proved him right. Architecture, while maintaining its gain in technology, is turning to Aalto's treatment of natural materials...
...mainstream of news consists not only of the efforts and activities of statesmen. Indeed, such efforts and activities can be supported only by the currents of thought and culture springing from man's mind. This week TIME'S cover subject, British Sculptor Henry Moore, provides a significant case in point...
...unreasonable and unwise to contend that commuters do not need the experience of the Freshman year. If anything, being separated from the mainstream of College life for the rest of their careers, they need it more than residents. To give them a meal ticket for their weekday lunches would actually cost them only about $150, without accounting for the saving from lunches which they would not have...
...with the critics (and the audiences), who cling to their touchstones, comparing every modern composition to the classical paragon in its form, usually harshly, often unfairly applying criteria that are not altogether suitable. The composer faces the choices of breaking definitely with the musical past; or creating a new mainstream of music by appealing to the pre-Palestrina composers; or deliberately continuing in the traditions of the great classical and romantic composers, risking invidious comparisons...
...There's no reason why realism shouldn't be poetic in its effect... But now that Kazan is beginning to impose on realistic plays like Sweet Bird and Cat [on a Hot Tin Roof] an operatic style, I think it's dangerous and forced." The mainstream of American drama ("I hate to use phrases like 'mainstream,'" says Tynan) has to do with "observable reality. I think--let's be frank--that Kazan has moved too far away from that without the moral or social realities that are necessary to sustain it. Even in a play like Our Town ... the performances...