Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainstream options available to Americans today--to become a Republican or Democrat--seem particularly limiting in light of the slim pickings remaining after presidential primaries. The distinction between both parties blurs when one considers that Democrats--the so-called party of the have-nots--have historically led this country into war; wars fought by the same "have-nots" the Democrats claim to serve...
Such a backlash would confirm the worst fears of many mainstream black leaders, who feel that Jackson is ill-versed in the delicate art of building interracial coalitions. Jackson has never held an elected office. Whereas mayors like Young and Bradley needed to court white votes to win elections, Jackson has opted for confrontation, forging all-black protest blocs to demand concessions. At Operation PUSH, he organized boycotts of white businesses in order to win more contracts and jobs for minorities. In the process he was able to wring concessions from such companies as Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola and Kentucky...
...Crimson's editorial page parrot mainstream pundits' assessment of the Jackson campaign (Mike Hirschorn's "Jesse's Tattered Message," 4/21). Hirschorn's point of view is indistinguishable from that of the hack apparatchiks of the Democratic Party who have aggressively tailored their party for electoral mediocrity and made a candidacy like Jackson's not only inevitable but highly desirable...
Williamson's analysis would be sharper if it emphasized irony more. Contemporary critics take poetry for too seriously; this tendency has hastened poetry's tragic descent into obscurity, away from mainstream culture. Williamson praises Tillinghast's early poetry for its gentle irony, a quality which that poet has refined to great advantage in his more recent work. But he almost completely ignores the wonderful humor in most of Plath's poetry--a humor that saves her poetry from becoming an obsessive mythology of self-hatred. A sense of playfulness is the crucial element lacking in much personal poetry as well...
Hart is hardly an old-fashioned isolationist, yearning to retreat into a Fortress America. At the debate he was careful to place himself in the "moderate mainstream" of past U.S. Presidents. He insisted that he would fulfill NATO commitments (although he has urged the European nations to foot more of the bill) and honor existing treaty obligations (although he vaguely added that some "may or may not deserve our continued support"). His plan to restructure the military to make it more "maneuverable" by, for instance, building a larger number of smaller aircraft carriers might increase America's ability...