Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large proportion of applicants typically express an interest in the over-popular fields of journalism, publishing, personnel work, advertising, and the "export-import business." This aggravates the placement problem, for the majority of job offerings tend more toward scientific pursuits. Insurance and merchandising also offer many good opportunities...
...minister, she launched her career at 14 by singing Ruth in a church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted her to wear tights...
...second period (1924-29), thanks to the Dawes plan, was one of relative stabilization. But by the evidence of the films, stabilization meant an avoidance of intellectual and spiritual issues. Movies about adolescence were significantly popular (Children of No Importance); the Germans looked back nostalgically, Dr. Kracauer says, to an era when the immaturity they had never outgrown was charming and legitimate...
...attack on authoritarianism. But the director cooked up a story "frame" (i.e., he had the main story told by an asylum inmate) which made the heroes (and the authors) seem mad. Authority emerged as a benign force, and the whole point of the original story was sidetracked. The popular device of the "framing story," Dr. Kracauer explains, shows the German mind introversively withdrawing into a shell...
Some pre-Hitler films sought out some tenable pattern for existence. Some escaped into serenely playful romantic comedies. Others advised submission and Christlike love (Dostoevsky was very popular in middle-class Germany). Still others-which were to furnish the Nazis with a theme-"combined passions and precipices," and celebrated the heroic but adolescent cult of mountain climbing...