Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stays out of the mainstream now, after flirting with what fellow Folkie Utah Phillips calls "the folkscare" of the 1960s. It was then that he made a "disastrous" album that flung him up against the lower regions of the pop music business. "I saw the grass on its bottom and the rot in its timbers," he claims. "I decided I didn't want to be a part of that...
...generational conflict. Sterling Hayden, as the aging king (of New York and eastern Pennsylvania), wishes to pass over his violent and ne'er-do-well son (Judd Hirsch) and grant his title to his grandson Dave (Eric Roberts). This young man is more interested in joining the American mainstream than he is in defending the traditional way of life, though he hates his father, if anything, more than his grandfather does. When his father attempts to sell Dave's young sister into marriage, the youth turns violently patricidal. The community hides his crime from ever befuddled authority...
...three Dutch Reformed churches that dominate in South Africa, this year's Sabbath marked the end of an especially perplexing year. The churches continue to provide the moral underpinning for the nation's policy of racial separation, a role that has left them increasingly isolated from the mainstream of Christianity, not only abroad but at home...
...their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream pop and down-home rhythm and blues was performed by Elvis Presley, who took R&B, fused it with a little country raunch and came up with rock 'n' roll. Even the generic name was a perfect synthesis: black slang, applied to the raucous music and then popularized...
Jonestown was more than an isolated aberrant phenomenon, a cult which had little to do with mainstream culture; it was, in a deep and touching way, an American tragedy. The incident at Jonestown could have happened only to Americans: the People's Temple arose out of social conditions absolutely indigenous to this country. Though the final mass suicide was bizarre and unprecedented, the force lying behind it are forces peculiar to America. The proof lies in the public's outrage--some deep nerve of the national consciousness has been touched. After all, 300 Vietnamese died in a boat a week...