Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-Communist witch-hunt that Sen. Joseph McCarthy introduced into American public life extended long after Tail Gunner Joe drank himself to death. The mainstream, as represented by Eisenhower. Kennedy, and Johnson, was so afraid of re-awakening the venomous far-Right that it felt compelled to demonstrate its unflinching opposition to Communism around the world. It was perceived as soft on the Reds, it felt doomed. This is why liberal Harvard-educated Kennedy felt compelled to risk nuclear annihilation over missiles in Cuba, while Nixon, a man who made his reputation as a Red baiter, could embrace...
...campaign is designed to explain Unification doctrine, polish the sect's tarnished image and achieve mainstream respectability. In the past year, for example, 7,000 clergy have been courted at all-expenses-paid Unification seminars in the Caribbean, Europe and Asia, as well as at U.S. sites. Moon- related scientific conferences have tried to win prestige by signing up Nobel scholars, while a Unification-backed anti-Communist agency seeks allies among fundamentalists. Capitalizing on its ownership of the daily Washington Times and New York Tribune, the Moon movement has run junkets for hundreds of journalists to soften media hostility...
...Whatever mainstream church leaders think of Unificationism as a faith, many have voiced their objection to Moon's imprisonment. He has protested that his conviction amounts to selective persecution of an unpopular religion. A wide variety of religious leaders agree, including the National Council, Moral Majority Founder Jerry Falwell, and Roman Catholic Bishop Ernest Unterkoefler of Charleston...
...thinking challenges mainstream legal theory by asserting that law is often incoherent, contradictory, and illogical. The central purpose of the law is to uphold and legitimate as oppressive Lerarchy dominated by the ruling class, CLS scholars maintain. They therefore maintain that law is based on subjective, political and arbitrary interests--as opposed to any objective standards adapted from natural models or utilitarian reasoning...
...realistic, and all but two were set in current or recent America. None could be categorized as truly avant-garde. This artistically conservative nature may reflect a rediscovery by playwrights of the values of traditional narrative theater, or it may indicate Actors Theater's eagerness to maintain a high mainstream profile...