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...from the conventional worker's world, they are no better off. They have traded a slow-paced life of hidden injury for a more exuberent life in which the injuries are more direct and economic. Neither Howell nor Sennett and Cobb begin to analyze what causes the against-the-mainstream behavior of the hard living families and how the internalized feelings of class break down. Howell says only that specific family problems can explain hard living on a case-by-case basis, and that societal explanations are beyond the scope of his book...
...turn-of-the-century burst of religious enthusiasm for a direct experience of God through the Holy Spirit. Now numbering a claimed 20 million adherents worldwide, the "classicals" at the Korean conference were joined by enthusiasts from more recent Pentecostal flowerings. Many neo-Pentecostals from Presbyterian, Anglican and other mainstream churches also attended, and a sprinkling of Catholic priests in Roman collars represented the burgeoning Catholic Charismatic movement (TIME, June...
...also praised the press for keeping a number of very confusing and varied happenings connected with the mainstream of events. He cited the reporting of the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist as an event that the press successfully related to Watergate...
...Mainstream Connections...
Until recently such sentiments would have been contrary to the traditional American spirit of boosterism, the antithesis of the goal emblazoned on the WATCH US GROW signs on the outskirts of countless towns and villages. But now they express the mainstream of American opinion, and in communities across the U.S. reflect growing concern about the use, and the misuse, of the land...