Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Sullivan, a strong supporter of the nuclear freeze and almost always a champion of progressive causes, refused to endorse the referendum. Explaining his stance, Sullivan said that "we have to remember the way Cambridge is seen in the rest of the country--we are not regarded as the mainstream of America." He added that the proposal, if approved, "may make it too easy to characterize the movement for nuclear arms control as kooky." The referendum will not make instant converts of the conservative white House or congressman. It will make it easier for them to dismiss the broader based...
...eleventh and twelfth grades if the student does not do well. Daily attendance rates have risen 14% in the past year. Says Winegar: "You don't change a school with programs. You change a school with philosophy. We want to help young people battle their way into the mainstream...
...children in her fiction, no politics or worldly intrigue, and very few excursions abroad. Death is only significant in Quartet in Autumn and A Few Green Leaves, which were written after she knew that she had cancer. She also knew, at the end, that she was back in the mainstream. That sense of triumph must have informed the closing words of Quartet in Autumn, in which unaccustomed events "at least . . . made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change." -By Martha Duffy
...leas obvious details of the transformation. He painstakingly shows how much the elements of baseball desegregation resembled those of the desegregation movements as a whole. These included, he notes, direct confrontation with Jim Crow; courage in the face of personal abuse; economic pressures to allow Blacks into the mainstream; and indignant newspaper editorials. Jackie Robinson's increased militance towards racism over the course of his career, Tygiel writes, reflected the general militancy the civil rights movement adopted over time...
...convention to become program-centered rather than personality-centered. We must be ready to step aside and let others take our place." Jemison went on to thunder, "When you're leading people, you can't lead without civil rights. Brothers and sisters, we are moving into the mainstream...