Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekday, 15-minute show, The Story of Ruby Valentine, starring Juanita (Bali Ha'i) Hall. Evans is not yet sure whether he will use "This is the National Negro Network" as a sign-off line: "The question is whether to ease our programs quietly into the mainstream of U.S. radio or to set them apart as Negro shows, thereby perhaps driving off potential white listeners...
...Your bizarre little fable . . . which purports to be a summary outline of modern intellectual history, is certainly entertaining . . . but some of your allegations are, as Huck Finn would say, real stretchers . . . You have streamlined Western history into a simple dichotomy-Platonic Christianity the mainstream, "Gnosticism" a transient aberration . . . The U.S. is not what Plato had in mind...
PRODUCTION & PROSPERITY. The flow of arms for defense and goods for civilians is the mainstream of U.S. strength; it has to be maintained and strengthened. Specifically, Ike has to keep the economy steady when arms orders slack off in a year...
...fitted in with the rest of the Harvard community, in order to give them the education through personal contact which the University values. This sort of education will obviously never be achieved if commuters remain segregated on a little island of their own in the midst of the University mainstream. This integration with the rest of the College, could probably be best worked out through a system of non-residencies in the Houses for commuters. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, the Houses are just too crowded to take more men either on a residence or non-residence basis...
...question of Jesus, Bernstein finds that a new attitude has been growing among Jews during the past generation, as "the religious factors in anti-Semitism have become less prominent." There seems to be a trend, he says, toward bringing Jesus back into "the mainstream of Jewish history. A Jewish basis has been found for most of his teachings. His stature is that of the Hebrew prophet, fearless fighter for righteousness. Like all religious geniuses, he was unique. As with Isaiah and Amos before him, he did not merely echo his people's convictions...