Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went. Langdell Hall was dedicated as the new home for the Law School; someone in University Hall took a poll, and discovered that economics had edged out English as the most popular field of concentration; and down on Memorial Drive rose the tower of Dunster House, which prompted the CRIMSON to complain that the "general impression conveyed by the tower is that of some exotic ornament, grafted onto a simple New England colonial house...
...Houses continued to remain a popular subject of discussion, especially when Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, first Master of Lowell, resigned from the Board of Directors of the Watch and Ward Society because of the "pressure of his new responsibilities." President Lowell's annual report, generating even greater interest, discussed the possibilities of moving freshmen from the river to the Yard as upperclassmen moved into the Houses, and Yale, which had once sent Edward Harkness and his money away, finally relented and accepted his grant for the Quadrangle System...
Unwelcome in both Rome and Milan, too high-priced for other Italian cities, Callas faced a lucrative, popular future abroad-and the prospect of a new battleground. Next winter she will sing at Manhattan's Met, and so will Soprano Tebaldi...
...companies with a total net asset value of about $11 billion. The funds put more than $100 million a month into the securities market, hold about 3.8% of the dollar value of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The recession has scarcely slowed the growth of the popular "open-end" funds.* While sales of the mutual funds' shares were off a bit in the first quarter, in April they rose to $122 million, v. $113 million in April of 1957, and the funds expect 1958 to be even bigger than...
...NORTHERN LIGHT, by A. J. Cronin (308 pp.; Little, Brown: $4), finds Novelist Cronin (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom) crusading again and moralizing again, but the muscles of his indignation have sagged. His wide-open target is the English "popular" press, which runs to sex, sadism and trivia. Small-town Newspaper Publisher Henry Page seems hardly the man to lift his lance off the ground, much less to slay the dragon. He has been twice mayor of Hedleston, and is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the respectable Northern Light. Unfortunately, he is the kind...