Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China. We consider it important that China be brought into the mainstream of detente. But all we get from the Chinese is their saying that war is inevitable. If your military relationship with China changes, we will have to reassess the situation. If normalization of your relations with China is part of a general move toward d�tente, it will be understood as such. Our relations with Peking may also change in time. But if you normalize with China in a way that has definite military and political undertones of an anti-Soviet nature, it may be seen...
Silberman is left with the unconsoling conclusion that until blacks and the poor are brought into society's mainstream, there is not a great deal courts and cops can do to cut down on crime. He finds a few examples of the poor taking a stake in improving their own communities, but more thoroughgoing solutions will take more money?and patience?than the country has so far been willing to give. "It's a gloomy book," admits Silberman. But an enlightening...
...decision and the absurd steps he takes are fine, but after he gets all cranked up, he simply and predictably caves in again. These trivial moments of neo-existential despair wear kind of thin. Alter's prose, given to somewhat untailored lushness, merges with the decidedly out-of-the mainstream setting to produce an interesting novel that doesn't always have a whole lot under the surface. But the threadbare spots in his carefully woven story get by on the strength of the writing alone...
Barry Kaplovitz, issues coordinator for the King campaign, said yesterday, "Monday night's debate will show who is in touch and who is out of touch with the mainstream and majority of the voters in Massachusetts...
...wealthy New Yorkers and suburbanites have much in common. The author describes them in one story as "the company of those people who were most free to develop their gifts." These fortunate few are much more significant than critics seeking raw social realism will admit. Well outside the mainstream, the Cheever people nonetheless reflect it admirably. What they do with themselves is what millions upon millions would do, given enough money and time. And their creator is less interested in his characters as rounded individuals than in the awful, comic and occasionally joyous ways they bungle their opportunities...