Word: mainstream
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...Protestant denominations, according to current conventional wisdom, are steadily losing membership. But the truth of the matter depends on the denomination. Year-end statistics show yet another notable decline in the membership of the mainstream United Methodist Church, but a remarkable gain for the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention. The United Methodists reported a drop of 175,000 during the past year, bringing their membership total down to 10,335,000. Methodist Church schools dropped more startlingly, losing 255,000 enrollees. The Southern Baptists prospered all across the board. Preliminary membership projections for 1972 indicate that the denomination passed...
...boon to those who are still unemployed? The Government's total effort is a complex of programs too diverse to support any generalization, except that manpower training has grown into a bureaucratic monstrosity. There are separate programs-many bearing such optimistic names as Apprenticeship Outreach, Operation Mainstream, JOBS, JUMP and WIN-for the urban poor and the rural poor; for blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Appalachian whites; for Viet Nam veterans, displaced aircraft engineers and welfare mothers...
...most extreme bias in such conservative denominations as the Church of the Nazarene and the Assemblies of God. One of the Assemblies' texts explains the persecution of Jews throughout history as "the price Jews paid for their rejection of Christ." Traces of bias were also found in such mainstream denominations as the United Methodist Church and the United Presbyterian Church. One United Methodist lesson, for example, perpetuates the notion that Judaism at the time of Christ was an ossified, spiritually bankrupt religion, whereas Christian scholarship now recognizes that Jewish institutions and intellectual life of that time were in fact...
...leading modernist critic, Barbara Rose, and her strictures would not have been made in the '60s, when American art seemed to inhabit an endless summer. Then New York believed in its manifest destiny; it had become the new Paris, or even Imperial Rome. The "mainstream" ran through New York. And it seemed by mid-decade that virtually everyone with something to invest was blundering about in its turbid flood like a shark, snapping up artworks. The culmination of this process was "Henry's show," a huge and partial exhibition called "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970" that...
...point of transition from the pre-eminence of sincerity to that of authenticity is far from clear; well into the twentieth century, as unlikely a thinker as Herbert Marcuse is found guilty of pleading a return to sincerity. But the mainstream is undeniably is another direction, and for Trilling its most radical current is that school of thought which sees insanity as a form of health, a viable "rational" expression of alienation from an "irrational" society...