Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most popular course in the most popular department of the University was Government 18 on International Politics under Associate Professor T. R. Fox of Yale, with 181 men. Second place honours also went to government with 159 enrolled in the Government 3 course on the Principles of Popular Government given by Louis Hartz '40, instructor in government...
With 123 in Philosophy G Harvard is not devoid of its standard crop of budding thinkers. Always popular Philosophy Ab trails for once with but 74 enrollees. Social Relations shows on the other hand consistently high enrollments having 101 in Social Relations 19, 105 in Social Relations 28, and 116 in Social Relations...
...notion of defending to the death the rights of swine to swinish, so long as they keep it verbal, is a notion which did very well for the period of English quietism in which it was most popular, but in rough times like the present it is too often an excuse for nonparticipation in public life. The common-garden myth of toleration goes about like this: permitted to express themselves, "extremists" "blow off steam," and are consequently less dangerous; the "extremes" neutralize each other in some way and serve as a means of locating the current Middle Ground, where...
Last week, with her first U.S. record out (If My Heart Had a Window, I Want to Be Loved) and another due next week, Beryl faced the Broadway bobby-sox brigade, which decides a popular singer's fate* in the big and noisy Strand theater. To most soxers, she was a Shore dimly seen, but with a smooth timbre and phrasing of her own. Variety reported that "her click is unmistakable ... a definite new song personality." Sighed Beryl, who is a fresh, friendly but slightly reserved girl offstage: "I do hope they like me; I don't want...
...According to Oberstein, 85% of all popular records are bought by youngsters between...