Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to the mechanical Marxists and Freudians whose overt reductionisms enjoyed a certain vogue in the '30s and '40s, prominent critics like Edmund Wilson and Lionel Trilling continued to insist on the importance of social and psychological concerns in understanding literature. But such critics always stood outside the mainstream of literary studies, particularly in the universities...
Reaction of mainstream clergy to the Family is mixed. Leonard Heffner, a United Church of Christ pastor in Scranton, feels that parents these days should be grateful if their kids are involved in a group that concentrates on Bible reading rather than something worse. But Msgr. James Timlin, chancellor of the Scranton diocese, warns youths not to be "taken in" by the zealots' "easy and simple solutions to very complex problems...
...writing in a wide variety of popular publications (from (MORE) to Parade Magazine) about what might be called "power in America". Along with writers like Andrew Kopkind, Emma Rothschild, Kirkpatrick Sale and James Ridgeway, he seeks to cover politics in the broad sense, evading Washingtonitis and other diseases afflicting mainstream pundits, the Krafts and Restons of the world...
Spain was a small, provincial place in 1650. Its economy was chaotic, its empire was fraying, the royal treasury was near bankruptcy and state policies were mostly devised by knaves or fossils. Art patronage was erratic, and to learn any thing about the "mainstream," a young painter of talent like Ribera or Murillo had to spend long stretches abroad...
...overshadows all other concerns, and Wallace has been agin' it longer than any of the candidates. In Boston, where the antibusing vote is estimated to be between 35% and 40%, Wallace can no longer be considered a candidate of the extremes. He has moved closer to the mainstream; he is careful, for example, not to let his attack on busing be misconstrued as criticism of blacks. He claims sensible people of both races agree with his stand...