Word: mainstreamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeared in 20th century America. Obversely, a number of businessmen, while transforming the society by automobiles, advertising, computers and urbanization, refer to themselves as conservatives, a term suggesting opposition to change. Almost any so-called radical utterance these days will contain an explicit or implicit rejection of the mainstream of change during the past 150 years, together with a longing for a future society conceived as a static Elysium. As for the modern liberal position, it has been more noted for restraining (sometimes wisely, sometimes foolishly) the forces of change than for stimulating or liberating them...
...have, as matters stand, no name at all for people who think that the accelerating mainstream of American change is both good and also desperately in need of discriminating improvements of a kind that does not flow readily from the liberal, radical or conservative positions. For all anybody can tell, such people might form a majority if they could break out of the enforced anonymity imposed by a political dictionary that provokes unfair, anarchic excrescences such as radical liberal and radical conservative...
...through the currents of style: history is his natural element, and from the last 20 years of Johnson's output it is clear that he took to a manner of freewheeling historical allusion as his proposed alternative to the International Style-which by 1950 had frozen from a mainstream into a glacier, trapping its architects in ice like mastodons...
...increase in racial troubles" he has found in Europe and Vietnam. Bennett wants race relations instruction for every basic trainee. Instruction for every serviceman in the real meaning of black power signs - "a time for the black brothers and sisters to unite" and "work together" to "get into the mainstream of American life." Open forums where blacks and whites will discuss racial problems face to face. On-post social activities in which both black and white women from nearby communities will participate. And literature, films, recordings and entertainment which appeal to blacks...
...though they had arrived at the resemblance by opposite paths. The Italian had brought Verdian passion to the Viennese world of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, restraining his fire with a rigorous intellectualism. Szell, born in Hungary and schooled in Vienna, brought a Viennese richness and Teutonic thoroughness to the mainstream of Central European music, touching it with a fierce temperament unheard of in most Germanic conductors. He had enough dramatic depth to disdain mere showmanship, enough inner fire...