Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although it was a little magazine in 1872, it got a big reception. In pulpit and press, the newborn Popular Science Monthly was denounced as the devilish work of atheists and evolutionists. But blind Editor Edward Livingston Youmans, no atheist but a devout missionary from the world of science to the world of laymen, took the abuse in stride. "The work of creating science," he wrote in Vol. I, No. 1, "has been organized for centuries. . . . The work of diffusing science ... is clearly the next great task of civilization...
...starting the magazine so as to run Spencer's book serially. Two years later Spencer wrote him: "I think you ought to be satisfied if ... you have reached a circulation of 12,000. ... I am rather inclined to shake my head when you talk about making it more popular...
Although it has done some positive good, the so-called Newburyport Plan (popular misconceptions to the side) has not brought about general price reductions. Nor was it intended to. Essentially, the ten percent retail price reduction movement is a somber, out of season, post-Christmas clearing sale. Many merchants, rightfully fearful that shoddy, overpriced good would rot on shelves, to be written off as complete losses, saw the light and began selling at wholesale cost. The resultant waves of buying have emptied shelves at no net loss. While a plasma infusion to the store-keeper, this phenomenon has no effect...
...other virtues-and it has many-the film is a daring individual gesture, dared in an era when such acts are rare. One of the world's most inspired and most popular artists-a man who for decades has delighted people of all races, from children to highbrows-now deliberately releases a film which almost nobody can wholly like. Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it. He has replaced his beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with...
...popular as well as a professional success, last week's three-day "Symposium on Music Criticism" was marked by the high level of interest apparent at all the speaking sessions as well as at the three sell-out concerts...