Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minute Man, but his fame was already as secure as the statue itself. He made as much as $80,000 in a year. His sculpture did not have the clean perfection of the Greeks or the fire of Rodin, but it was recognizably romantic and faintly classical-a popular blend. Daniel achieved his greatest sculptural triumph-the Lincoln Memorial statue...
...Greening remembers, "my roommates and I would eat jam until we were sick. Sometimes when the food ran out all over we'd give the jam back to the guys it came from." Greening also staged an art show in an unused latrine, which was held over "by popular demand...
...soon as churchgoing ears become educated enough to recognize irreligious music when they hear it, "pieces like the popular setting of The Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...
...resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then a mob attacked me," said the victim. Currently the most popular Cuban is Senator Eddy Chibas, ardent duelist and once Grau's close friend, who fills the air every Sunday night with rasping radio attacks on "the Government of dishonesty and indignity...
...though Henry Fuseli antedated the term he was England's first and best Surrealist. When he died in 1825, Sir Thomas Lawrence mourned the passing of a "kindred genius if not greater" than Michelangelo. But by 1868 Fuseli's reputation had so diminished that his most popular painting, The Nightmare, sold for about a pound...