Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburbs. Across the U.S., in working-class townships and bedroom communities that surround the great industrial cities, fundamentalist religion-in tiny, independent churches that feature emotion-laden sermons and preach a faith based upon an unerring Bible-is beginning to threaten the traditional suburban hegemony of the mainstream Protestant denominations...
Mostly descendants of Scotch-Irish immigrants who settled in the Appalachians in the early 18th century, the migrants were long isolated by their mountain barriers from the mainstream of U.S. life. Settling down to a slow-paced, hand-to-mouth and inbred way of life, they became famed chiefly for moonshine, revenooers, family feuds and hillbilly music. They became the inspiration for Erskine Caldwell novels and such comic-strip caricatures as Snuffy Smith and Li'l Abner...
...anthropologist," is that after about five pages, one forgets all about concepts, and avidly enters into a gripping world of often unbearably real people. Yet while Lewis--I'm not sure purposely--redefines anthropology as dramatic novel, at the same time he continues in perhaps the most important ideological mainstream of anthropological thought: giving a voice, and dignity, to the backward and poverty-stricken peoples of the non-white world. An incomplete summary of the history of the discipline will serve to place Lewis' work in perspective...
...music in New York, you can hear everything from Rhythm and Blues at the Apollo Theater through Dixieland at the Metropole to modern and mainstream jazz at Birdland and the Five Spot...
Barring revolution, the future of Vicos will be a gradual movement toward the mainstream of Western civilization. For other less fortunate communities the future is much less clear. The government has in recent years undertaken to improve conditions in some of Peru's most depressed mountain areas. The problems it faces are frightening. As health facilities increase, countless babies are saved; and in a country which precludes birth control, the problem of too many people for too little land is everywhere apparent and worsening daily...