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Word: mainstream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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King says he is running for the blue collar workers he describes as the "mainstream of the Democratic Party." He favors capital punishment, mandatory jail sentences for drug pushers, nuclear power as "the safest alternative form of energy," raising the drinking age to 21, and most of all--Proposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Primaries: A Glance at the Candidates | 9/19/1978 | See Source »

...went back to become Governor of Texas. In his first year came Dallas, and later Richard Nixon, the man who was mesmerized by Connally. He became Secretary of the Treasury, but Nixon tantalized him with the vision of being his Vice President and finally moving into the Republican mainstream and the presidency. That is the kind of wide-screen thinking John Connally liked. Too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: He'll Let Us Know | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...foundation's philosophy owes something to the distaste for competitiveness that rose out of the 1960s counterculture. But the "new games" are catching on in the mainstream. The foundation, with an annual budget of about $400,000, conducts a hundred or more weekend workshops round the country for recreation specialists, educators and health care professionals; many of them are paid by their employers to learn the new nonwinning ways. Explains O'Connell: "The games are especially popular in the Midwest, where people still have lots of community picnics and family days. They're a lot more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: No Victor, So No Spoils | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...teaching, but being a junior administrator and lecturer is not a viable long-term career," says George Smith, 31, a history Ph.D. who has taught at Harvard for the last two years. "We see ourselves with a taste for power and money." The project supports those goals. "We want mainstream jobs for these people in channels that will take them to the top," says Co-Director Harrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: From Campus to Corporation | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...link"); even a certain smarmy desperation ("I'm lost in the haze of your delicate ways"). In live appearances, Dylan has lately converted himself into a sardonic showman, tossing around patter between numbers, glad-handing the audience, carrying on as if he wants to bellyflop straight into the mainstream. Street-Legal has strong pop overtones, and at least two cuts (Baby Stop Crying and We Better Talk This Over) sound shaped for the Top Ten. Dylan's heat still burns, though, and blazes bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tops in Pops | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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