Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus went Stanley Kramer. That night, he represented not only the ludicrous aspects of Hollywood deep-think, but the frame of mind needed to outjob mainstream Hollywood product. All his films have the built-in sentimentality evidenced by his one-man, one-"feeling" statements, and this negates any biting commentary he ever wishes to make. Most men are basically good, says Kramer's films; their political and social ills are shallow compared to the potential of their 'untapped depths of human understanding'; if you get a Negro and a cracker on the same side of a chase, they'll learn...
...roles of a woman and a successful female athlete are incompatible in the United States. The woman who wishes to participate in sports and remain 'womanly' faces great stress. By choosing sport, she usually places herself outside the social mainstream...
Unforgivable Personality. If his bearing won plaudits overseas, it endeared him to few at home. His enemies might forgive him his policies, but never his personality; it was not mainstream America. As his State Department colleague Louis Halle put it: "He was too unrepresentative to be trusted." Said Canada's former Prime Minister Lester Pearson: "Not only did he not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all." "A good many members of Congress didn't like me," said Acheson. "This didn't bother me at all. I didn't care whether they liked...
...state supreme court. The argument will likely be that traditional tests reflect middle-class white values and so entitle the university to use special means of evaluating minority applicants. Moreover, says Law Dean Richard Roddis: "We are trying to bring people from traditionally excluded groups into the mainstream of legal activities as one way to overcome 200 years of discrimination...
Even Shirley Ann Grau's best novel, The Hard Blue Sky, is very casually plotted. But she can write with a poet's concentration and record dialect knowingly. Perhaps The Condor Passes is merely an attempt to join the mainstream-as the South is now supposed to be doing-and to market all that distilled violence nationally. Still, there is richer life in the bayous than in the mainstream. One can only hope that she will soon be back in her old pirogue...