Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raubinger has issued orders to end de facto segregation in three New Jersey communities. In the same vein, a former foe of "social engineering via bussing," Dr. John Fischer, president of Columbia's Teachers College, warns that schools must "take positive action to bring Negro children into the mainstream of American cultural activity." And in California, the state supreme court in June came close to outlawing de facto segregation. Where it exists, ruled the court, "it is not enough for a school board to refrain from affirmative discriminatory conduct." No exact racial ratio is required, but schools must take...
...study and criticism of Yeats will be released in 1965 during the centennial of the poet's birth. Donoghue will be an editor of this criticism and will write one of the chapters. The professor interprets his own works to be "an attempt to involve literary criticism" with the mainstream of daily life. Although this may result in an "impure literary criticism," he hopes that it will be more vital and human, even if a bit "more messy...
...also a sneaking admiration for him: "In his round eyes, the eyes of a bird of prey, I saw the extinct race of ancient Rome, which had marched intrepidly over the whole expanse of the ancient world and conquered it." He admits his isolation from the mainstream of European life: "The most worthless German parvenu was closer and more understandable to me than an educated foreigner...
...revolution, on the need not only to "take" but to "deserve" their place in this society. You mention that Southern and Northern whites have pointed to the high rate of crime and illegitimacy among Negroes, and seem to imply that the Negro has not wholly justified "acceptance" into the mainstream of American life because of his questionable morality. As a thinking person, I take exception to this vicious and dangerous insinuation. As a Negro, I take offense...
When Gold tries to move from the fringes of society, however, to the mainstream of successful American life, his rush of eloquence falters. The Optimist, a novel which plumbed the past of a rising young politician, was a muddled nearfailure. Salt is a dreary near-disaster which recounts the triangular love trials of three well-heeled squares in Manhattan. Apparently, Gold is trying to say that up-and-coming Americans, tormented by a sense of futility and lack of purpose, try to make love make up for everything else. In the process, they poke and prod and worry it almost...