Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diego is a gaunt, intense man, who suffers from the burden of being known to gossip-column readers only as a former husband of Gypsy Rose Lee. As an artist, he fits into no easy pigeonhole, and is far from what is commonly considered to be the mainstream of modern art. He is a traditionalist at heart-and one of the best-yet he is not afraid to pursue an eccentric notion wherever it may lead. Last week a De Diego show that opened at Manhattan's Landry Gallery attested not only to his technical gifts but also...
...those delightful English summer days so well described by Lord Tennyson." But for readers who had enough sense to come in out of the reality, it was not a bad sort of beginning. One knew where one stood, which was as far as possible from the mainstream of current literature...
...fundamentalist leader estimates that around Chicago there may now be as many as 1,000 "storefronts"-as preachers persist in calling them, although in the suburbs they are more often housed in old churches bought from mainstream denominations, or in simple (and cheap) concrete-block structures. Last month the Rev. Lyle Schaller, director of the Regional Church Planning Office in northeastern Ohio (which represents twelve Protestant denominations), reported in The Lutheran magazine on a survey of new church construction near Cleveland. In the suburban triangle formed by Cleveland, Lorain and Elyria, no fewer than eleven of the 15 new congregations...
...suburbs as in city, storefront congregations tend to be small in size, distrustful of "worldliness" and "heresies" in mainstream Protestantism, ardent in their faith, and embellished with such florid names as Faith and Miracle Tabernacle or Church of the Living God. Few of them have fulltime ministers. Church services emphasize oldtime hymns and sermons that pound home a basic Gospel message of Christ's saving grace. There is little or no liturgy. "We feel that all this rising and reading confuses the issue,'' says Pastor Delamarian. "Our message is simple: Have you been saved...
Most ministers of the mainstream Protestant churches profess not to be worried by storefront or cinder-block competition. "They're no real problem." says the Rev. Hugo Leinberger, church extension director for the North Illinois synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church...