Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mechanisms or swirled to pieces by epiphanic happenings. His conclusion is that those who toil most glamorously at self-conscious modernity are those who have the least chance for valuable contribution. Integrity and "modernity," separate from formal exploration, are antagonistic. The past lives in the art which lives. The mainstream flows to Schocnberg and Stravinsky, who are essentially similar in their conception of music, rather than antithetical, as is often assumed. The problem with such composers as Cage and enakis is whether they are belligerent in a healthy manner, whether in their individual attempts at radical changes, they...
...crossword puzzles and dance marathons; in the fifties it was quiz-shows and hoola hopps; in the last decade it was the twist and Jackie Kennedy. The culture moves so fast that one never can be quite sure of what is happening until the latest issue of Life (mainstream-pop culture) or Rolling Stone (counter pop-culture) arrives in the mail box. As Norman Mailer said a few weeks ago, only one factor of our national life is unchanging: "This country is a bitch...
...past decade, Blackmun has sent two daughters to Radcliffe, but he hasn't been seen often in the Cambridge area. His appointment to the Court will give him his big chance to get back into the mainstream of events on the East Coast, and might also prove that Nixon is capable of an occasional intelligent decision...
YOUNG: One of the positive changes in recent years has been a new acceptance of blacks as being black. A new sense of pride, of dignity, and a sense of personal worth is very healthy and very necessary in order to really believe that you can keep in the mainstream. This means you have to accept what you are, but that what you are places no limitations on what you can be in terms of intellectual attainment, excellence...
Invisible Ceiling. Wherever a black man happens to be on the economic scale, his race weighs heavily upon him. "You can never, unless you know people well, feel comfortable," says Gilbert Daspit, 36, a sales trainee with American Can Co. in Chicago. "Breaking into the economic mainstream, you realize how culturally deprived you've been. I have found myself eating at much better restaurants than I'd been accustomed to, and being ill at ease as a result of wondering constantly 'Am I doing this right? Am I picking up the fork right, folding the napkin right...