Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intolerant of religion," the issue did not subside last week. Indeed, it intensified and widened, involving politicians and pundits across the nation, including a full range of religious spokesmen. But most of all, it provided a theme that for once found Reagan backpedaling to preserve his credibility with mainstream Americans, while Mondale was able to take the offensive with a thoughtful and hard-hitting attack...
...parcels out among family and friends. In recent years he has seen to it that his wife gets a very fair share of these. The result is that with such pictures as A Woman Under the Influence, Minnie and Moskowitz and Gloria she has had an opportunity vouchsafed few mainstream actresses these days: she has been allowed to create a true screen character...
...among Republican women, or at least among those who seemed to dominate in Dallas last week. For certain circles, Nancy Reagan has transformed a sprinkling of fresh raspberries in a tart shell into something approaching the national food. Ballrooms were packed at lunchtime with women who described themselves as mainstream. At a Monday lunch given by Anti-ERA-Activist Phyllis Schlafly, Dorothy Kranhold, an alternate delegate from Danville, Calif, said, "It amazes me that people would think this is not a cross section of the American public." She waved an encompassing arm at the room full of overwhelmingly white, conservative...
Peres is also pursuing alliances with several tiny religious parties in the hope of achieving a Knesset majority without Likud's help. Peres is especially lobbying the ultraorthodox Agudat Yisrael (two seats) and the National Religious Party (four seats), a mainstream Orthodox group that is holding out for the Ministries of Religious Affairs, Education and Interior. Yet the National Religious Party complicated Peres' task last week by announcing that it would join only a wider coalition that included Likud...
...among economists, conservative thinkers now seem to be ahead. Says Harvard's Feldstein: "All mainstream practitioners are more monetarist, more supply-side oriented, and less Keynesian today than they used...