Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could hear the faint humming sound of platitudes being rubbed together, of logs being rolled, of whitewash being slapped across naked raw spots of international dispute. "Her interpretation of the dance is certainly interesting. Now if we could find a way to bring it down to the level of popular understanding . . ." Or: "It might be beneficial for us to initiate plans for a study with a view to promoting more understanding . . ." Scarcely a speech failed to make a bow to UNESCO's objectives, "human rights and fundamental freedoms . . without distinction of race, sex, language or religion"; or to that...
Chewing a fat, four-inch stogie, Finland's most popular "war criminal" stepped out the gate of Helsinki's Sornas Prison last week into the welcoming arms of his wife, eight children and eleven grandchildren. White-haired, 68-year-old Vaino Tanner, condemned by a Communist-run tribunal for advocating war with Russia in 1941, had been granted remission of half his 5½-year sentence. "I am sure I am the best living advertisement for Finnish prisons," smiled the old man. "I have gained 15 pounds in weight and feel fitter than ever...
...army gave Venezuela its first democratic government; the army took it away. The military leaders in the "cold coup" last week were the same officers who had ousted Dictator-President Isaías Medina Angarita in 1945, opening the way for last year's popular election of President Rómulo Gallegos...
...pronounced Cootch, "not like a sofa") was appointed King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. "I'm in a hideous funk about it," he wrote to a friend. But the funk didn't last long, and in time Q became one of the most popular lecturers the university had. When he died four years ago at 81, he was still lecturing. Last week, in a short, intimate biography (Arthur Quiller-Couch; Macmillan, $3.50), his friend Fred Brittain, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, tried to tell what Q was like...
...final editing. To get down to a 45-minute playing time, they had to drop such highlights as Gandhi urging nonresistance, Fiorello La Guardia reading the comics over New York City's station WNYC, and a musical background that was to include such popular songs of the Depression as Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? and Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf...