Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confucian system assumes that government shall rest in the hands of scholars and of gentle and honorable men-the chiin-tzu. The benevolent paternalism of the chiin-tzu ideal (still reflected in China's 36-year Kuomintang "tutelage" and in much of the new Constitution) is not popular government as the West understands it. To many a Western-trained ear Chen often seems to be asking for an indefinitely continued rule of the Kuomintang party elite...
...first shock had worn off. The big reason for their sense of relief was that President Dutra's Government had lost the offensive. It had found itself legally unable to finish the Communists by turning their legislators out of Congress and stopping the presses of their raucous Tribuna Popular. Moreover, many a thoughtful Brazilian, with no love for Communism but with a lively memory of dictatorship, had rushed to support the Communist Party's right to exist...
Elsewhere, the anti-Yankee attacks were brassily strident. Tribuna Popular (still getting a half supply of newsprint from the Government) blamed the U.S., along with Dutra and the Army, for the "illegal" political ban. U.S. Ambassador William D. Pawley was accused of "leading the offensive of U.S. capital against Brazil." The facts: peripatetic Bill Pawley had been sunning himself in Miami at the time the Electoral Tribunal made up its mind on the Commies; the U.S. Embassy had maintained a scrupulous hands-off attitude toward the Government move; privately, Embassy officials felt there were better ways of fighting Communism than...
...many respects, Lanny resembles an even more popular character in modern fiction: Superman. He excels in doing the impossible, and he is impossible as a human being. Bailing out of a reconnaissance plane over German-held Africa, he chews up his U.S. credentials, rides a camel, eventually walks straight into Hitler's den. "Will you tell me where you have been for the past two years, Herr Budd?" barks the Fiihrer. Lanny offers so neat an explanation that Hitler, in return, offers him an autographed pass to tour the Reich as he will. Lanny makes his tour, then flies...
...collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London's bohemia. But Prelude never really gets going and never comes to an end, simply limping from sketch to sketch...