Word: bandwagons
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...intriguing is the research that Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky of the Rockefeller institute was moved to warn that molecular genetics may be getting too popular. "It is both inevitable and good that the achievements of molecular genetics have gotten so much attention, but it is less good that a bandwagon effect has made some say that molecular work is all there is or should be to genetics...
...refusing to participate. Recalling that only a few years ago the government argued with compelling logic against membership in the Common Market, the Sunday Telegraph concluded last week: "What is so sad is that once again we seem to be climbing reluctantly into a back seat on the bandwagon only after it has started to move...
...back in 1956 to describe how certain serious artists were incorporating images from TV, movies and other forms of popular art into their work. But until a few galleries began picking them up, U.S. pop artists were barely aware of one another. Today, they are the new bandwagon; and since the avant-garde public is so hungry for more and more avant, the pop artists are in the chips. Wesselmann can sell a collage for $2,500; a Claes Oldenburg Floorburger is priced at $2,000; and JarLes Rosenquist can fetch as much as $7,500 for a painting...
...small problem arose when a questioner noted that Johnson "once reached for the presidency" himself and wondered if he might not try again some time. Johnson, who spent much of his time just before the 1960 Democratic Convention desperately buttonholing delegates who might help derail the Kennedy bandwagon, disagreed; he had never ''reached" for the presidency. "My friends put me in the race," said Lyndon. "They felt that they should have representation, and my name should go before the convention." But all in all, Lyndon insisted, life is quite all right. "From a personal standpoint, I am very...
...Wilson was the first man on Mye Bevan's bandwagon and the first to leave it," Rodman said, and at the time of the intra-party debate on unilateral disarmament he was found talking both ways...