Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that in most situations one can forget that one is black or white. 2) The core of my argument was that black students had to strike a balance between three elements: a sense of respect for their racial and cultural heritage, broad participation in the social, cultural, and intellectual mainstream at Harvard, and adherence to the highest academic standards at the College...
THIS HEIGHTENED awareness of private neurosis alerts her to the general taint and prompts an interesting argument. In a review of Tennessee Williams's play, The Rose Tatoo, Maxwell Geismar--a Marxist critic--deplores Williams's detachment from the mainstream of American literature. Convinced that literature should be a function of politics, any preoccupation with sheer emotion irks him. The "people," he contends, aren't infected. Nin perceives an undercurrent in American life that sucks in more than a peripheral minority--making neurotics less than special. Williams, she responds, has prophesied a cultural illness...
...revolutionary fervor and her associations with the Black Panthers, the Communist Party, and other groups advocating violence to throw off capitalist repression, Angela Davis has managed more than anyone else numbered among these organizations to assuage mainstream America. By the end of her trial, Davis had so moved members of the jury with her political statements that even those who originally appeared prejudiced against both blacks and Communists were thoroughly convinced of her innocence. Some even considered the trial an impetus to their own political action to fight repression. When Davis spoke at the Boston Globe Book Festival several weeks...
...This is Warren Burger talking, not the U.S. Supreme Court," Dershowitz said. "Burger is out of the mainstream of the Court on most issues...
Inbal said the rally demonstrated that "the Jewish people throughout the world is still one." He said the protestors had an obligation to tell the world "that in the cradle of totalitarianism, the Soviet Union, Jews are struggling to throw off their shackles and rejoin the mainstream of world Jewry...