Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist organizers make their blunders, too. Recently the Brescia Communist daily La Verita devoted most of its space to a completely phony story about "Gary Cooper Addressing Communists of Philadelphia." Communist popular songs are often unintentionally funny. Sample: "Stalin is even better than bread for the people. Just to see his face is to want madly to kiss...
Extremist. Architect Niemeyer is a Communist and he works diligently at being a Communist. During last winter's elections, he sold the Communist Tribuna Popular in Rio's streets. It did not raise his stock with conservative President Eu rico Gaspar Dutra. Last week, Dutra was reported to have canceled a contract recently awarded to Niemeyer for a great aeronautical center near Sao Paulo-an air city with hangars, workshops, hospital, stadia, schools and apartments...
...Bald Doctor," as Andover's 757 boys call him, had never wanted to be headmaster. He was the school's liveliest and most popular teacher, who enjoyed classroom work, also enjoyed his after-hours leisure, in which he wrote biographies (Choate, Webster, Coolidge). As the headmaster he still tried to call the boys by name, but often got them wrong. Said he last week: "My main regret is that I haven't been able to see as much of the individual boys as I wanted to. . . . I don't think I'm very popular...
Monsieur Verdoux has serious shortcomings, both as popular entertainment and as a work of art. But whatever its shortcomings, it is one of the most notable films in years. It is not the finest picture Chaplin ever made, but it is certainly the most fascinating...
...moonlight chilliness of his mood, his refusal to soften the deepening ambiguities of truth (as he saw it), the pitiless obsession of his God-seeking, and the scary symbolism in which he embodied his God-seeking, have kept Kafka from becoming a popular writer. Yet readers with the requisite staying power will find that in the scope of the problem to which he dedicated himself, in the depth and integrity of his discernments and in the variety of means by which he dramatized his vision in terms of everyday life (thereby giving to everyday life new implications and new dimensions...