Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MAINSTREAM-Hamilton Basso-Reynal & Hitchcock...
From Cotton Mather to F. D. R. In Mainstream Hamilton Basso has a new character in a new scene. The character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages, Mainstream contains thumbnail biographical sketches that run in time from Cotton Mather to Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like...
...prove that the theoretical works of American statesmen have a practical, working, constant significance in the daily lives of average Americans. The quality that makes it of contemporary value is its reminder of the distance U.S. intellectuals have traveled since Sinclair Lewis' first works: between Main Street and Mainstream there is the difference between an indictment for murder and the studying of a will. Where the plain American appeared to Mencken and Lewis-and to Author Basso in his early works-as a power well-nigh malignant in his complacency, John Applegate now emerges as the first guardian...
Last week Peyrouton looked more like the strong man of the Cabinet. Onetime colonial administrator in Morocco and Tunisia, onetime Ambassador to Argentina, he is a politician who has kept out of the mainstream of politics. As Chief of Police, he has fired 57 out of 94 prefects, 230 out of 261 sub-prefects, appointed Army and Navy officers in their places. With the Foreign Ministry under Pierre Étienne Flandin, whom Petain does not trust either, the Marshal must have felt the need of a pair of shoulders as husky as M. Peyrouton...