Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian Department has been left with no professor of Italian to teach its popular and important course on Dante. The course was scheduled to be taught by Erich Auerbach of Yale, who passed away over the weekend...
Economics 1 has maintained its title as the most popular undergraduate course for a third consecutive year. With a total enrollment of 635 students, Ec 1 tops its nearest rivals by over...
Communist party boss Nikita Krushchev made a bid to enlist Western European Socialist parties into a popular front with the Communists, warning that they are in serious danger of being dragged into...
Moving swiftly, the Communists arrested scores of leaders, broke up demonstrations, suppressed news of those riots that defied control (e.g., in Hanyang). "Those popular manifestations are clear and unmistakable evidences," said Hu, "to prove that the Chinese Communist regime . . . is as unstable and as shaky as was the Hungarian regime of Rakosi and Gero...
...afterglow of the success of last year's Perry Como and Dinah Shore shows, the TV networks are taking a high shine to popular singers in jumbo productions. In fact, the TV season threatens to be, in the phrase of one critic, a case of "the bland leading the bland." TV's Pepsi-Cola girl, Polly Bergen, got mired down in embarrassingly labored exchanges with a shrill, scenery-chewing "panel" of other show folk, and only when she used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color...