Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...influence this year has been strong, it has also been negative and retrogressive. The Wallace candidacy is a magnet for the disgruntled, and while the Alabamian poses serious problems for the major parties, his odd allure is a force to be circumvented rather than absorbed into the mainstream...
...black doctors is not simply a matter of matching numbers, status symbols, ego satisfaction, or even the doctor's self-image, which is a vital factor in his ability to practice confidently and well. Health and medical care are as essential to the Negro's joining the mainstream of American life as are education and job opportunities. Indeed health may be more fundamental, and Negroes are sicker than whites from womb to tomb-their infant-mortality rate is double that of whites. A child can learn little, even in a vastly improved school system, if he is suffering...
While Williams tried fecklessly to provoke mass arrests, bending the campaign toward civil disobedience, Resurrection City's population shrank to a minimum estimate of only 500. Violence was rising, vituperative militance was alienating liberals, who are Abernathy's only real source of mainstream support, and the pretender to the role of Martin Luther King was letting the Poor People's Campaign wallow into disorder, disintegration and self-defeat...
...called "charismatic gifts"-prophecy, spiritual healing and glossolalia, or speaking in tongues-have long been characteristic of the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects. Increasingly, though, these unusual outpourings of spiritual feeling can be found in mainstream Protestant and even Roman Catholic congregations-and some church leaders are concerned about it. The 1968 General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church ordered a special study of the spread of glossolalia. This month an ecumenical assembly of 120 churchmen met at Roman Catholic Dayton University in Ohio to discuss the movement...
...Students at Columbia] did not even want to be included in the decision-making circles of the military-industrial complex that runs Columbia: they want to be included only if their inclusion is a step toward transforming the university. They want a new and independent university standing against the mainstream of society, or they want no university...