via media – n - A middle way; a mean between two extremes.
C. S. Lewis believed Anglicanism to be the via media between Catholicism and more standard forms of Protestantism. Today, Anglicanism (and its American offshoot Episcopalianism) seems to be the via media between Unitarianism and paganism.
About ten years ago I read an article by Christopher Buckley in which he fielded the question, "Is sex still sexy?" Back when today's featured exquisite, Yvette Mimieux, was making the rounds it was. Here she is with Rod Taylor in George Pal's Time Machine (1960), where she played Weena. (Some time we'll have to discuss the ways in which movie-makers keep getting H. G. Wells wrong. Pal missed the point too, but he gave us an entertaining movie.)
