Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of explosion that occasionally shatters the peace & quiet of a U.S. campus. A popular teacher had been fired, students picketed in his defense, and in the flame and smoke of controversy it soon became hard to tell who was right, or what the shooting was about...
...Italians knew very well that more money would not necessarily make better pictures. What they feared was that American money could keep them from making any pictures at all. For Italy had become a popular Hollywood "location," and the visiting moguls were tossing money around freely enough to drive local costs right out of the Italians' reach. Items...
...rescue party succeed? On the evidence so far, the answer must be a qualified yes. He has made Washington human, in the sense that he displays human feelings, but he has not-in the first two volumes, at least-made of George Washington a more lovable figure for popular consumption. Readers of the seven thick volumes on Lee and his generals know that Freeman is not a portrait painter who gets his effect with quick, inspired strokes; his method is careful and cumulative. His works are what book reviewers are apt to call monumental, and monumental they literally are: built...
Young Washington (the first two volumes bring him up to the age of 27) is 1,013 pages of solid fact and educated guesswork buttressed with 5,440 footnotes, uncompromisingly set below the text. For the popular, novelized biography, full of glib insights into the inner man, Freeman has nothing but contempt. His dogged intent is to portray Washington day by day and "year by year, through each new experience, as if nothing were known and nothing were certain about his future...
Subsequent Monday night "Armchair Audits" shows will present College professors giving their most popular lectures, the Network announced last night...