Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feldstein has argued that an introductory course should concentrate on the mainstream view and that students can learn alternate economic models later. "I want students to learn what I call the consensus view, where the vast, vast majority of economists are," he said last fall...
...screenings came one year after the series was cancelled because of lack of student interest, said Ronald Roach '85, who added that he revived the series to provide a voice for minority issues not found in "mainstream media" and to promote the work of Black film artists...
...right to ask Harvard to fund such excursions into Black cultural awareness? How can the Black Students' Association (BSA) and its affiliated groups justify both their rejection of mainstream Harvard life and their requests for Harvard's financial backing...
...generation ago, mainstream Protestant churches began clustering their national agencies in New York City. With such institutions as the U.N. and the National Council of Churches already in place, Manhattan seemed the ideal base for forward-looking church leaders. Now, for various reasons, four major denominations are simultaneously pondering whether to pull up stakes. The underlying trouble is not New York's reputation as Sin City--except insofar as liberalism is counted a sin. Churchgoers on Main Street are increasingly concerned that the left-of-center New York bureaucracies are out of step with heartland beliefs...
...there will always be people who ignore mainstream culture because it disgusts them--and there will always be people who hope when there is no reason for hoping. This means, of course, that there will always be Beats...