Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have entered the mainstream of America. We're already complaining about the traffic congestion, and it won't be long before we'll have smog and pollution to contend with. It's a good feeling not to be apologetic about being a Southerner, but it's not the same South. We've lost our character, but I guess that's the price of progress...
Says Oscar Carr Jr., who left his prosperous Mississippi farm to head the office of development of the national Episcopal Church in New York: "The greatest thing the South can offer the nation is its religious and moral sense. Once Southerners can jump into the economic mainstream they will be more liberal than people in Connecticut...
...selection of Robert Dole as his running mate, Gerald Ford accomplished a tour de force of political theater: he surprised almost everyone (Dole included), and offended almost no one in the party's mainstream. Liberals in general and some moderate Republicans were disappointed by the choice. But even they acknowledged that Ford's problem was choosing someone who would appease the Reaganites without blatantly antagonizing other Republicans. Thus, once Ford unveiled his choice, politicos who only hours before had been touting "short lists" on which Dole's name did not even appear, began ticking off reasons why he made sense...
Linda Ronstadt: Hasten Down the Wind (Asylum). For a sweet country rocker, Linda sings a lot of sad songs. Now and then she tips her hat to mainstream rock 'n' roll- That'll Be the Day and a razzle-dazzle version of Heat Wave-but mostly Ronstadt has built her career singing about losers. Her new LP continues in the same vein. "Save me/ Free me/ From my heart this time," she implores in a voice edged with tears. The gentle reggae tune Rivers of Babylon blows a few of the clouds away, but nowhere does Ronstadt...
Aside from promising to choose a running mate whose ideology is similar to his own and in the party's "mainstream," Ford was listening-but not talking. Some of the party figures who meet his criteria and who are known to be highly regarded by Ford...