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...repugnance factor in his case: even assuming that he got 13 million of the young, how many other voters -essentially workers and "ethnics" -would his policies on defense, welfare and redistribution of wealth scare off? So far, a TIME-Yankelovich survey indicates that many voters see McGovern as a mainstream candidate (see story, page 16). As the convention approached, some radicals were sneering at the idea of McGovern as a radical. Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman, for example, examined McGovern's ideas and found him "a wild-eyed moderate" whose proposals were only mildly reformist and, in the case...
...likable, attractive candidate of indisputable stature. More important, panelists from both parties feel that he represents a broadly based constituency and not just a small radical minority. Most agree with Laura Kent, a writer-editor from Washington, D.C., who sees McGovern as "a man very much in the mainstream of American views." Despite charges that he is "the Goldwater of the left," only one panelist in ten considers McGovern a radical. The remainder are equally divided in describing him as either a liberal or a moderate/conservative...
What the world was listening to reflected Wein's own solid, mainstream musical tastes. The emphasis was on established and often middle-aged jazz figures, so much so that Trumpeter Miles Davis absented himself from the week's proceedings, complaining of "comfortable" and "Uncle Tom" aspects in Wein's programming-and about the fact that he had been invited to play two concerts in one day but was only going to get one fee ($7,500), like everyone else...
...middle 1960s, New York critics were apt to brandish the lordly assumption that everything painted west of Manhattan was provincial and therefore insignificant. It had not been dipped in the rolling Jordan of "the mainstream." When the work of California artists refuted this, the position shifted: now there was a New York-Los Angeles axis, but everywhere else I a vacuum. An exhibition is currently on view at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art that attacks this generalization too. "Chicago Imagist Art," a grab bag of work by 28 painters and sculptors, moves to the New York Cultural Center...
...surprises and mysteries, the impossibility of explaining it. I don't go along with science when it looks for ironclad explanations of phenomena. Likewise I resent the counterpart notion in art, that it is a problem-solving activity, that it has only one great direction-'the mainstream'-which moves with a sort of fine, Vatican logic. Much good art, the art that interests me, veers away from any center, and does nothing but explore the perpetual strangeness of the world. It is eccentric, and that's what I think Chicago artists are, even more than surrealist...