Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first long poem, "The Vengeance of Fionn" set the mood for his early narratives based on the saga cycles of ancient Ireland. These include the Fiannaigheacht, a series of stories about Fionn MacChumhall and his young, unmarried, Fenian warriors, 2000-year-old stories that were lost to the mainstream of Irish consciousness but survived and multiplied among the peasantry; and the Ulster cycle, another series whose central epic, the Tain, relates the deeds of the mighty hero, Cuchulain, and the fights between king Conchobor's Ulster and other regions of Ireland...
...Mainstream American politicians like Gerald Ford and Vance Hartke are looking for a graceful way to close the books on U.S. involvement in Indochina. The hawks of the war era, men like Ford who wanted to beat back the advance of communism in Southeast Asia, are humiliated by America's defeat and resentful toward those who forced restraint upon the war effort. In a different political climate the hawks might be clamoring for recriminations against those who caused the United States to "lose Vietnam," but for now they are satisfied to forgive if everyone else will forget. And the liberals...
Noting that "people in this country who committed war crimes continue to enjoy respect," Falk says that the mainstream of "the American people are unprepared for allegations of criminality. "War crimes trials would be disruptive," he says, "since so many people are trying so hard to forget." He admits, though, "Maybe I've too easily estimated the mood of the nation on the war issue...
...heavily with O'Neill (they are both Irish, fat, and aggressive), he tends to make O'Neill seem a more important force last summer than he actually was. O'Neill was doing nothing more than the ordinary politician does all the time: going with, and perhaps gently influencing, the mainstream of his colleagues' opinions. Unlike those Republicans on the Judiciary Committee who voted for impeachment. O'Neill had nothing to lose. He was in the right place at the right time...
...resurgence of radical consciousness that will bring radical economics to Harvard despite the votes of the faculty, and expects that it will be met with hostility again. "There will be a next time around, and there will be growth," he says. "But it won't be respectable to the mainstream because it's a threat. It's a threat to their power, to their prestige, to their incomes, every...