Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional departments and institutions at Harvard-Radcliffe were founded in and continue to project a white European image and value system. Today, although many of us find worth in participating in mainstream institutions, we typically discover these institutions to be Eurocentric, insensitive to our cultural backgrounds, irrelevant to our interests, unsympathethic to our needs, and void of an understanding of and interest in our histories-in short, historically and currently alien and alienating...
...much less that of a musical masquerade than of a soulful affiliation of outsiders who share a taste for a strong dance beat and a sense of fun as strong as all that ganja Bob Marley goes on about. Besides roots, both Madness and Specials hold similar suspicions about mainstream rock. "Me Mum had a lot of Beatles records," admits Madness Organ Player Mike Barson. "I reckon they're pretty good, but a bit wimpy." Observes the Specials' Panter: "I think the Rolling Stones have been playing Honky Tonk Women for the past ten years. It must...
...House Conference Chairman and why the Chicago Tribune endorsed him as a candidate in harmony with modern conservatism." Less evident is why, especially after an unimpressive showing in Wisconsin yesterday, Anderson should contemplate an eveutual independent campaign. His ideas simply are not distinctive enough; he is squarely in the mainstream of American party politics. Missing is the kind of ideological justification present in the campaigns of Henry Wallace to the left or George to the right...
Marglin's career is case in point. "If his political outlook hadn't changed, he today would be the director of HIID," says James Duesenberry, professor of Economics, who taught Marglin when he was an undergraduate. But Marglin's political outlook has undergone dramatic changes since its mainstream beginnings...
...although Marglin says he would find most mainstream economists unsuitable for the position, Harberger "represents an extreme case who, even more than most, would narrow the political range of countries and programs the HIID can be involved in." Harberger's policy requires an ideological commitment to the free market, which many Third World governments are unwilling to make, Marglin explains, saying not only does the implementation of these policies require the repression of civil liberties, but also the crushing of any free or independent labor movement there. Marglin lists one more reason for the unsuitabiltiy of Harberger: HIID recently attempted...