Word: mainstreamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MAINTAINED a very romantic image of activists during my childhood. They were gypsies of a sort, living on the fringes of society and constantly reminding the mainstream of its wrongs. Their protests against war, against racism, against injustices of all kinds were justifiable. Who wouldn't want to eliminate these evils? Yet, the demonstrators were always wrong in the eyes of many adults I knew; they were contemptuously described as "hippies," "radicals," and "subversives." The idea that these people were not exactly right with the establishment only intensified my admiration of them, since, at age 13, I was carrying...
Analysts praise Finkelstein and crew for slipping Macy's into the modern mainstream of U.S. retailing, and for brightening an important slice of a weary urban America. Financially, the effort is paying off. Business this year-boosted by Sunday openings-could reach nearly $200 million, up more than 10% from last year. Finkelstein anticipates a record Christmas. That speaks loudly to other retailers again looking at once-laggard Macy's Herald Square. It has something to show off these days...
...this time he had attracted a core of committed disciples who interpreted the refusal of mainstream scientific journals to publish articles by him (a stance often extended to advertisements for his books) as evidence for a grand anti-Velikovsky conspiracy...
Thomas Alva Edison is placed apart from the mainstream of history. He invented the light bulb and the phonograph, improved the telegraph, telephone and movie projector, and developed a system for distributing electrical power to homes and businesses over broad areas. But most who survey American history view Edison as an eccentric anomaly, and leave his life and work to the historians of wizardry or of science. Conventional histories deal with technological development as though it were an independent force, growing without any influence from the men who in fact produced it. But to ignore an inventor as part...
Illuminated codices were ripped apart for the gold in their bindings; bronze corroded; only a few Gospel books and a quantity of gold ornaments-since gold does not oxidize and is incorruptible -survived these ravages. No mainstream of civilization left less behind it than this early climax of Irish culture, which took place between the 6th and 9th centuries A.D. The Irish tradition absorbed the Vikings; it digested the animal motifs and decorative knotwork of Scandinavia; but it could not survive the English. The English Renaissance meant the Irish decadence...