Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first agreeing to join him as a roommate for the following year. John did his share of hurting as well, turning down a rooming offer from another freshman merely because of his heritage--he was a New Yorker, and Jewish. Other attempts to enter what he though was the mainstream of college life were wasted. After starring in Morristown football, Reed decided to give freshman crew a try. Even being the last man cut didn't deter his efforts to join the crew organization--he immediately began competing for the position of assistant manager for the varsity. Selling more season...
Vladimir Nabokov, in the end an American novelist, always included himself in the mainstream of this self-contained, self-sustaining Russian tradition. He may well have been the last great participant in the conversation, so who better to hear on the subject of Russian literature...
...Calvinist and Roman Catholic clergy were among the early organizers of Europe's widespread antinuclear movement. In the U.S. a growing number of pastors and prelates are taking up the chant. The movement is not limited to predictable leftist or pacifist church circles; it has entered the religious mainstream. This month the 37 regional executives of the American Baptist Churches called the very existence of nuclear weapons, much less willingness to use them, "a direct affront to our Christian beliefs." The bishops of the United Methodist Church proclaimed in November that "all other issues pale" by comparison. Billy Graham...
...when Ronald Reagan finds two Soviets in every Latin American garage and a Libyan in every pot, maybe a film about two lovely, decent people who also happen to be Marxists will restore some balance. Perhaps this is as much as we can realistically hope for from a mainstream Hollywood film by Warren Beatty. At least it points in the right (left) direction and makes having a social conscience fashionable again. But fashion is fickle, and Reds' underlying conservatism and drippy romanticism are hardly what we need now. Burn the armchairs...
...prepared to be generous and far-sighted, to bury my cavils in a cornucopia of praise for the nobility and daring of the enterprise. New playwrights have painfully few outlets for their work in this country, and everyone is hurt by the lack. Isn't it obvious that the mainstream commercial theatre is so impoverished because so little, apart from television, feeds into...