Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, despite his tolerance of quixotic causes and idiosyncratic roles, the Man of the Year reflects-more accurately than he might care to admit-many of the mainstream currents in society at large. In 1966, the young American became vociferously skeptical of the Great Society. Though he retains a strong emotional identification with the deprived and spurned citizens of his own and other societies, he recognizes that the civil rights revolution, in which he was an early hero at the barricades, has reached a stage at which his own involvement is no longer vital. And, as a letter...
...delegates and observers lustily clapped their approval, for in recent years, both the N.C.C.'s mainstream Protestant members and the conservative evangelical churches have more and more come to realize - as one of the most eloquent social activists, Harvey Cox of Harvard's Divinity School, put it - that the conflict between evangelism and social action is "mistaken." Evangelical churchmen, such as Graham and Christianity Today Editor Carl Henry, now increasingly stress that spiritual conversion inevitably finds expression in action for the social good. Similarly, National Council leaders have become more aware that activism without spiritual underpinnings is religiously...
...progressed to the point where there are no longer specifically Polish interests to be protected or promoted. If middle-class Poles are unhappy about the Democrats, it is because of civil rights or welfarism as threats to their economic wellbeing." They find security by losing themselves in the mainstream of American life; they find any specific appeal to their Polish identity somehow insulting...
...further "the basic mainstream thinking" in the G.O.P.: he wants to help nominate a moderate or a liberal. He has not for gotten the thunderous catcalls from the Goldwater gallery at San Francisco's Cow Palace in 1964, and he is determined to prevent the conservatives from capturing the party again. "I stood up to them once, you know. I tell you, we can really stand up to them this time." "Them" this time means Reagan, and when he was asked last week about his differences with the California conservative, Rockefeller said with a grin: "Well...
Aside from describing the average subscriber, the profile gives a few fascinating glimpses of that small group outside the mainstream: the 3% who serve Irish whisky, the 5% who own organs, the 2% who drink bottled water. We worry about the 6% who have no life insurance. What do the 1% who own vacant lots plan to do with their property? And will the 2% who have only a grade-school education go on to higher learning...