Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brigade" by fearful Germans-begin their assault on a steep mountain in Italy, the peak of which is enemy territory. There is room at the top, but along the way many good devils die, and Holden comes to realize the cost of his merciless goading. As a mainstream tough-and-rumble military movie, The Devil's Brigade-which is based on actual events-offers few new sights or insights. After nearly three decades of World War II films, it is hardly surprising that Hollywood is beginning to suffer from combat fatigue...
...Republican candidates searched across the land for the "mainstream." This year again the cliche is liquid-and equally elusive. The situation is "fluid," or so maintain the augurs of Rockefeller and Reagan...
...enabling the young to escape the self-regenerating cycle that has trapped their parents in poverty. Better medical care for poor children and early educational programs like Head Start, followed through with continuing vocational training, cultural enrichment, and ultimate employment, would grant a meaningful role in the mainstream of American life to all citizens. Such an attack would in the long run prove a sound investment, in lives as well as dollars, for a society with both the conscience and creative resources to hold out for all its people the actuality of the American dream...
...Saying that Updike is not in the mainstream of contemporary American letters is manifestly absurd. Since when is creativity governed by conformity? Updike would not deign to wade in Mailer's muddied mainstream. Updike, in his personal life and his writings, is a lover. Mailer, in both, is a hater...
...simplicity or overflowing with a new kind of personal, revival-meeting combustion that lies somewhere between caterwauling and glossolalia. But prose style is one of the minor differences between Updike and his contemporaries. The larger fact is that however valid his own objectives and achievements, he has ignored the mainstream of contemporary Western fiction. The French, in the roman nouveau, have reduced the novel to a random series of received sounds and images; the English are tearing apart seven centuries of established order...