Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in the Freshman year, nearly all students discover that they are intended to find their own way through four years of college. The indifference of the Freshman adviser is so well known as to have become the butt of popular witticisms. The highly important Freshman year, because of this indifference, is far too often spent in wasted effort--there is nothing to prevent a student from over-specializing or from over-generalizing, or from thinking in terms of an altogether wrong field of concentration...
What is the most popular classical music? Eight years ago Manhattan's radio station WQXR (which plays no jazz) polled its listeners, found Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 the favorites. Listeners now think less of Tchaikovsky's dog-eared concerto, but Beethoven is more popular than ever...
...most familiar complaint of modern composers is that they don't get a hearing. On that score, Igor Stravinsky has little to complain of. In the past month, packed houses in Manhattan had heard everything from his popular Petrouchka (1911) to his dusty-dry Symphony in C (1940). Even his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex had been uncovered for the first time in 17 years. Bobbing, crouching and flapping his arms like a grotesque little bird, Composer Stravinsky had conducted several performances of his music himself...
Whatever adults-and sponsors-may think of such carryings-on, Hawthorne and his peculiar banana-split lingo have become the rage of Southern California's younger set. Most popular root word is "hogan" (example: "I was driving my carahogan in from Pasadena-hogan so I could get a hoganburger"). The young folks also overwork Hawthorne's favorite adjectives: keen, peachy-keen, and oh-so-peachy-keen...
Died. Tom Breneman (Smith), 47, folksy star of radio's Breakfast in Hollywood; of a heart attack; in Encino, Calif. A onetime pianologuing vaudevillian, he charmed U.S. housewives with homey gallantry and life-of-the-party gags on his immensely popular (estimated audience: ten million), seven-year-old breakfast program...