Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NEVERTHELESS, FRIEDAN believes she is still in the mainstream of feminist thought. "One cannot deny that there is an open ideological split in the women's movement," says Friedan. "The media have co-opted the man-hating exhibitionistic image of the movement. Yet there is at the same time, a mainstream activist group, of which I consider myself a part...
Sunset Boulevard (1951), is one of the best films about Hollywood, and also one of Billy Wilder's best films. Set in an incredible Hollywood mansion, it captures the spirit of early-50s-just-outside-the-mainstream-of-Hollywood cynicism...
Since Bok realizes that Mom Harvard is out of touch with the mainstream of American education, he probably also realizes that if his and Rosovsky's new statement of purposes and aims is really going to have an enormous impact, it'll really have to be revolutionary and not more of this jive curriculum reform. The prexy and the dean have been pretty close-mouthed about what they have in mind for the overhaul of the system, but if you just contemplate the depths of understanding of economics Bok displayed in his talk to the Republicans, it's hard...
...mildly ironic that such unpretentious objects, conceived and made without much more than a fleeting reference to the canons of 18th and 19th century mainstream art, should now have lost their practical use and migrated to the museums. History cautions us not to think of pre-industrial America as a lost paradise; albums of 19th century photos like Wisconsin Death Trip remind us how brutish, crazed and short life could be in America then. But the folk art gathered in this show does counterbalance the pessimistic view with its vitality and awkward graces...
Sanday therefore argues that it is not race but class that influences IQ. She points out that "IQs are simply a measure of what you need to do well in the mainstream culture of white middle-class America." Because many blacks are excluded from this mainstream by racial prejudice and class segregation, they never have a chance to acquire the information and mental attitudes and skills that lead to success on IQ tests. The same exclusion also has its impact on preschool-age children, she says. That accounts for the lower IQ scores of blacks in kindergarten. In sum, Sanday...