Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Motorists approaching an entrance ramp along Massachusetts' well-traveled Route 128 recently were pleasantly surprised at the ease with which they could enter the expressway. Instead of the usual pile-up along the ramp, car after car moved effortlessly into the mainstream of traffic. Drivers barely glanced back to look for an opening. They did not have to. Like the flashlight of a theater usher, moving green lights at the edge of the ramp led them surely and safely up and out onto the highway...
Self-Imprisoned. It is just here that existential thought seemingly departs from the mainstream. To Freud, man was the hapless prisoner of his past. The best that he could hope for in the present was a truce with those stern and deterministic taskmasters whom Freud called the Super Ego and the Id. The goal of life was "adjustment." Hence it followed that unhappiness, anxiety and guilt were usually pathological states -a measure of the struggle against those dynamic and contradictory forces...
MOREOVER, as a result of the split, each faction moved to strengthen its position vis a vis the other and, in the process, moved further away from the mainstream of Harvard life. Trying to begin organizing workers, WSA members began getting jobs, often full-time ones, as workers at Harvard or in Cambridge and treated the University to the amusing spectacle of seeing its recent graduates sling hash in the dining halls. Members of NAC also tried to find a revolutionary constituency: they searched among Greater Boston blacks, tenant unions, street people and working class teenagers...
...position. The result was smashingly successful. Even when it was given a hard shove forward, the riderless URB IV quickly toppled. "It seems a lot of tortuous effort to produce in the end a machine of absolutely no utility whatsoever," Jones concluded, "but that sets me firmly in the mainstream of modern technology...
...because we who have been in the movement a decade find ourselves with the realization that we are not free. We're not looking for new gains. We find ourselves struggling to maintain the gains we made over the years. Our intent was to participate in the mainstream of American life. The results just have not been there...