Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect him to belt out anything as simple as "the Catholics hate the Protestants and the Protestants hate the Catholics." Between the surrealistic "song of trunks" and his ode to overdue library books, Misch seems about as far removed from the mainstream as a comedian can get--and still be funny...
First Vote. The U.M.W.'s policy of allowing every member to cast a secret ballot on industry-wide contracts at last brings the miners into the mainstream of progressive unionism. Until now, the final decision on major mine contracts was made at the top. Under the plan, the first vote is cast by the Bargaining Council. The schedule then calls for the agreement to be explained to 800 delegates from the local unions at a meeting in Pittsburgh late this week. The delegates will then take the 58-page agreement back to their local headquarters, where it will...
...smile has turned out to be deadly for his opponents, who never quite knew what hit them, so disarming was the weapon. Today, Bumpers is considered the most promising politician in the South-a region that, as it moderates its once extremist politics, is fast rejoining the mainstream of the Democratic Party...
...Press should not be just books. We are trying to get the Press back into the mainstream of the University," Rosenthal said. The Press is trying to get closer to Harvard's departments and do things for the University outside the realm of books, he added...
...surveys established that far from being a homogeneous group, conservatives were divided into what could be called the more classic (58%) and the more populist (42%) constituencies on the basis of the latter group's angry, resentful feeling that it has been left out of the American mainstream. The populist conservatives also tended to be less well educated and less affluent-45% are in economic distress, compared with 28% of the classic conservatives...