Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elder statesmen of jazz are in Boston this weekend. The old line is alive and well and swinging. The mainstream is flowing quickly through the bean town. If only Buddy Rich were here...
Anyway, you might as well dive into the muddy waters of the mainstream this weekend. You may come up dizzy, but you will not drown...
...power is concentrated and therefore more formidable. What the call for "objectivity" boils down to is the call for moderation. When the press rocks the "middle" boat, it is not "objective." The radical is not "objective;" the reactionary is not "objective." Increasingly the "objective" press becomes more centrist, mainstream, homogenized and consensus-bound. And it is a strange coincidence indeed that this objectivity has coincided with the rise of corporate power in the press...
VERY FEW PEOPLE in this country are strictly middle-of-the-road, mainstream, or centrist. We are a land of independent thinkers, dissenters, regionalists, and everyone has a belief or two out of line with the political mean. When the press was more diverse, it catered to the vigorous variety of outlooks, and people felt that in an intangible way the newspaper or magazine of their choice 'belonged' to them. Now the press is viewed as dominating and monolithic, a part of a power triad with government and industry. Large sections of the population, the majority even--from moral conservatives...
...teach religion and women's studies, which she continued to do until coming to the Div School's program this year. The unique culture and lifestyle of rural West Virginia creates a special problem for Daugherty in her work, for Appalachian women do not fit easily into the mainstream of the American feminist movement. "The average rural woman doesn't even know the movement exists, and if she does it's usually greeted with suspicion and hostility," Daugherty says. She found few suitable teaching materials for her women's studies course at Morris Harvey. In Appalachia, "it's very hard...