Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professors well-qualified to teach Harberger's efficiency-first brand of economics. The "academic freedom" which Bok invokes as an excuse for ignoring this problem looks facetious next to the much graver lack of academic freedom encountered by students who want to study any type of economics but the mainstream...
...adopted kids. It's tough to make them look like you." The Ramones had not only raised themselves in Specter's image, but played something he recognized: "Basic, honest, good rock 'n' roll. They get the feeling across." This set them apart from the pop mainstream for Spector, whose opinions about much of today's sound tend to be a tad prickly ("The Bee Gees produce porpoise music. It's interspecies communication...
Brown's aides concede that their candidate's poor performance results from what they anti-septically term an "image problem." Pollster Lou Harris and his nationwide interviews show voters regard Brown as "superficial", "opportunistic," "unreliable," and "flaky." Americans perceive Brown, despite his mainstream politics, as so far beyond the bounds of the civic religion that he could never be nominated, let alone elected. Recent events in California--the murder of two public officials in San Francisco cult in Guyana--have made the public far less indulgent of the stereotype of western eccentricity that Brown epitomizes...
...John Birch Society will never work into the mainstream, never become acceptable. Defeat has been welded on their faces as clearly as anti-Communism has been grafted into their hearts. They know that the public's conception of their organization is a lunatic fringe of the right wingers. No matter how moderate the society s stands on specific issues, that image will remain...
Although she has complained in the past that science fiction was not taken seriously enough by mainstream critics, Le Guin now concedes that the form "still hasn't grown up completely." Some of her recent books, including The Beginning Place, Malafrena (1979) and Orsinian Tales (1976), have contained little or no conventional scifi, although she is not considering abandoning the form for good. She still feels challenged by its "total freedom of plot; there are no limits except those of imagination." That is certainly not true of science in the real world, as Le Guin was reminded last month...