Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sure enough, two years later Madison elected a radical mayor. But so far at least, Cambridge's elections are very much in the mainstream of American politics. Few students vote in them, and professional Harvard-baiters like Al Vellucci consistently outpoll professional leftists like Saundra Graham...
MISCELLANEOUS FOLD--Considering the sad pickings in mainstream rock this weekend, this is definitely a time to experiment. Tonight, flutist and singer Paul Cole will perform folk music from the revolution (the 1776 revolution, that is) and discuss broadsides from the period at the Boston Center for Adult Education...Breakfast Special, a country music band will play all Sunday afternoon at the First Congregational Church...Those who like slightly soppy, James Tayloresque Nashville music will find a singer after their own hearts in Townes Van Zandt at Passim...
During the past decade, the once conservative Episcopal Church has flowered into one of the most progressive of mainstream Protestant denominations in the U.S. But last week, at their 64th triennial convention in Louisville, the Episcopalians abruptly applied the brakes to innovation. The House of Bishops elected the Right Rev. John M. Allin, 52, of Mississippi-the most conservative of five candidates-as their new Presiding Bishop, the church's chief executive. Moreover, the lower clergy and laity who constitute the House of Deputies unexpectedly defeated a proposal to ordain women as priests...
...from the conventional worker's world, they are no better off. They have traded a slow-paced life of hidden injury for a more exuberent life in which the injuries are more direct and economic. Neither Howell nor Sennett and Cobb begin to analyze what causes the against-the-mainstream behavior of the hard living families and how the internalized feelings of class break down. Howell says only that specific family problems can explain hard living on a case-by-case basis, and that societal explanations are beyond the scope of his book...
...turn-of-the-century burst of religious enthusiasm for a direct experience of God through the Holy Spirit. Now numbering a claimed 20 million adherents worldwide, the "classicals" at the Korean conference were joined by enthusiasts from more recent Pentecostal flowerings. Many neo-Pentecostals from Presbyterian, Anglican and other mainstream churches also attended, and a sprinkling of Catholic priests in Roman collars represented the burgeoning Catholic Charismatic movement (TIME, June...