Word: mainstream
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...themselves apart as a separate class and seem to believe that the only way to demonstrate true political concern is by vociferous denunciation of the present government, according to Reischauer. The result is a sort of utopian movement whose sole function is criticism, and which is separated from the mainstream of politics in Japan. The students are forced onto the political periphery not only by their class aloofness, but by stringent electioneering laws which prohibit them from ringing doorbells and participating in other such campaign activities, considered "dirty" in Japan...
Modigliani's Legacy. The macchiaioli were too far from the mainstream of modern art to be noticed at once. But their pupils made good. One who studied under Fattori was an Italian Jew from Leghorn named Amedeo Modigliani. Although he is best recalled for his expressionistic nudes, there was a time when Modigliani painted fleeting visions of the unpopulated flowery banks of Tuscany with a matchless skill that paid homage to his teacher. Thus Tuscan impressionism, so eagerly seeking to become a part of European art, fed Paris its best pupils, and Italian impressionism became, until now, a forgotten...
Japanese students hold themselves apart as a separate class, according to Reischauer. To be anti-government is to be "political." The result is a sort of utopian movement whose sole function is criticism, and which is separated from the mainstream of politics in Japan...
They found new roots in their own experience as farmers, brickmakers and weavers. Monks flocked to new monastic communities from among the common people as the Copts grew further away from the mainstream Christian churches. In succeeding centuries, they developed their own Christian liturgy and a Christian art that eerily foreshadowed the religious paintings, illuminations and tapestries of medieval and Renaissance Europe...
...state" tactic. And, recalling the vehemence of Senatorial attacks on the Defense Department when it prevented officers from engaging in free-lance public education on the dangers of Communism, it is curious to find Sens. Goldwater and Stennis now deeply concerned that the military has been placed "in the mainstream of swirling political currents...