Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three were disillusioned dropouts from Synanon. The name they chose for themselves was inspired by Maher's boyhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where, in the 19th century, Delancey Street came to symbolize the self-reliant spirit of Old World immigrants working their way into the mainstream of American life...
...construction workers. Movement tactics often seemed absurdly ineffective as when a day of civil disobedience at the Kennedy Center was greeted by a presidential statement announcing the bombing of the dikes. Not only were movement participants faced with a choice between absolute commitment or a return to the societal mainstream, but the goal to which they were committed was losing credibility as an effective force. Many of the "veteran" student protestors who marched in the last demonstration did so with a nagging sense of responsibility and of nostalgia; they must now explore other means of change. Both the antiwar movement...
...design and elaboration of detail verged on the decorative and gave impetus to Beardsley and Art Nouveau. Yet what they were doing was in no way as radical or influential as what their contemporaries across the Channel, the Impressionists, were doing. If the pre-Raphaelites contributed anything to the mainstream of modern art, it was an attitude. They were the first to rebel against the heavily sentimentalized genre scenes of the academy schools. Compared to these soap operas in paint, the Pre-Raphaelites looked for an art that was more serious and more personal. And perhaps even more important, their...
...over the Palmer Raids and the repression of the IWW in telling of Woodrow Wilson's greatness, will similarly beautify their accounts of the Johnson administration. But that is why people who are trying to understand the world, and to change it, have never had much use for the mainstream American rewriting of history. Frank Ackerman
...modern times, much of mainstream Protestant scholarship has virtually dismissed the idea of a real Second Coming, preferring to view the apocalyptic literature as a metaphor, a prefiguring of an eventual victory of Christ's redemptive power over the forces of evil. Roman Catholicism, in whose theology the Second Coming is known as Parousia, generally tends to accept the ancient creedal statements at face value but in interpretation holds a multitude of views, ranging from the transcendent visions of Teilhard de Chardin to literal belief in the final terrors...