Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accepting the fact that they could not beat down a popular President, Democratic leaders reluctantly gave ground...
...posed whenever he had time to spare, from 15 minutes to an hour. At Wyeth's request Ike donned his favorite jacket, a straw-colored, nubby silk. He sat unsmiling and as if alone with his thoughts. Previous portraitists, working mostly from photographs, have tended to crystallize the popular image of a beamingly paternal President. Wyeth saw and showed an elderly, strong-minded, dedicated public servant, calm in the vortex of great events...
...breaking so sharply with the traditional print, Japan's new wood-block artists have forfeited their traditional popularity at home. They had to await the coming of the American occupation to win acceptance, even now remain more popular abroad than at home. Putting a sampling of Japan's best on display, Manhattan's small Weyhe Gallery in two months sold 75 prints, 25 of them to museums and schools, last week was awaiting a fresh supply from Japan to restock its walls...
...most popular of the moderns, Kiyoshi Saito, 52, has achieved a success almost worthy of the top Ukiyo-e artists. In 1955 he exhibited 67 of his pieces in the U.S., in a grand gesture gave them all to the University of Michigan. In debt, like most of his contemporaries, to Western influence and a Western audience, Saito lately visited ancient Kyoto to recapture special Japanese qualities he feels his works lack, ruefully muses: "We have lost our Japanese origins. I keep on going to Kyoto to try to rediscover them." But to a Western eye, his origins are unmistakable...
...chromeless, the new cars held few surprises-but some bonuses-for Mercedes fans. The lower-priced 180 models ($3,300 to $3,567 in New York) and the luxurious 300 SL Roadster ($10,978) were basically unchanged. But Mercedes' new 220 series of six-cylinder sedans, the most popular in the line, appeared in a sleeker new version, with a redesigned engine that boosts power output to a top of 134 h.p. The medium-priced 220 ($4,767 with fuel injection) has a somewhat lower, slightly streamlined body that keeps the unmistakable Mercedes look, a slight suggestion of tail...