Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film is neither realistic nor imaginative, just perversely sentimental. It's set in a sterile New York City of empty streets, beautiful skylines, grassy parks, and colorful junkyards. Ten scrubbed youth-for-Nixon types romp through this wonderland discovering faith. These are good kids, close to the mainstream of American life. They don't smoke, drink, or care about sex. All of their emotions are conveniently sublimated into religious faith. When they do reach out to each other, it's in a sappy, harmless way. The modern day Jesus and his John the Baptist are played by two adolescent Adonises...
...five-man Steve Miller Band, with Moby Grape are still the only Hashbury era rock bands I can tolerate over repeated listenings. Miller broke up that band, in favor of a trio, at the musical instant when trios went totally out of fashion. He rode back into the mainstream of rock music, Steve Miller's remains as little known as his five-man band did. I fact, though, this is rumored to be a new Steve Miller Band, and no one seems to know who's in it, besides Steve, and how many there are, but it's for sure...
...than a theory. He lets Indian politicians discuss splits within the Communist party, and films Indian gurus praying in isolation. He takes these themes to their furthest extremes by showing political problems in the slums of Bombay and the primitive beauty in natural village communes isolated from the Indian mainstream. These polarities bring some conclusions to the sequence of scenes...
...finding what they seek in liberal churches or synagogues. Since the mid-1960s, mainstream Protestantism particularly has slipped in numbers. Together with liberal forms of Catholicism and Judaism, the progressive Protestant denominations are hoist with their own petard. Their very creedal flexibility precludes the certitude that attracts converts. In fact, believes California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, Christianity may be losing its power to grip the imagination. "We have become imageless," he says. "We have no symbols like Moses' passage through the Red Sea. We are empty people. The elements of mystery in the church have been...
...many spiritual pilgrims are returning to an appreciation of mysticism. More Jews today-especially the young-are delving into the mysteries of Hasidism, and Christians are re-examining their own great mystics: Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila and Sören Kierkegaard. Many mainstream Protestants and Catholics, while staying mostly within their churches, are caught up in the rapidly expanding Pentecostal movement. The Pentecostalists seek to renew their belief through an ecstatic personal encounter with the Holy Spirit, manifested especially in glossolalia, the speaking of mysterious tongues. These neo-Pentecostalists tend to be more...