Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly, as columnists go, old Newsman O'Hara (New York Herald Tribune, New York Daily Mirror, TIME) writes as brightly as most and less fatuously than many. While his Coolidge-era conservatism often placed him not only outside the mainstream of U.S. opinion but outside shouting distance of the river bed as well, it still is a sorry commentary on the press that some editors apparently became disenchanted with him because he supported Goldwater ("It's time the Lawrence Welk people had their say"), criticized the Kennedys ("Instant Adamses"), and loftily dismissed President Johnson ("an uninspiring, uninspired...
...church, but "religion plays no important role" in his professionalist attempts to find a meaning in life. Ethically he is a relativist, an existentialist who prefers Tillich to St. Thomas, who reads Camus rather than Marx. His intellectual style is "anti-ideological, pragmatic and empirical," much in the mainstream of American tradition. But he does have tensions, a sense of uneasiness, a vague feeling of disquiet, and they are rooted in his strivings to reconcile two separate parts of his existence, "his public and his private self...
...years of Government manpower and housing bureaucracies. As the first Negro ever to hold Cabinet rank, Weaver reasons that his race is irrelevant: "I don't delude myself into thinking that I've ceased being a Negro because I've received recognition in the mainstream of American society and because my problems as a Negro have been somewhat ameliorated. I would like to feel that I was appointed not because I was a Negro, but maybe in spite of that fact." One of Weaver's most welcome qualifications is that he himself is a lover...
...contend successfully with the many problems that confront him, his first task is to regain full mastery of the levers of power and the instruments of opinion making that lie at his disposal as President. His long absence from the White House has removed him from the mainstream, and this week's State of the Union address-usually a President's most important in any given year-will indicate how ready he is to plunge back in. When he is fully ready, his first and most important order of business will be to decide just where...
...from Ecumenism. Most Evangelicals are highly suspicious of modern doctrinal statements by mainstream churches-such as the United Presbyterians' proposed "Confession of 1967," which, they claim, reduces the Bible to a vehicle of God's Word rather than the Word itself. They are equally wary of ecumenism, on the ground that churches should be united by a fellowship of faith rather than by organizational merger. Even more abhorrent are the radical ideas of the "death of God" thinkers which, they say, seek to make God acceptable to man rather than try to bring man back...