Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give him some headaches at home. Leading prospect for the Republican nomination for governor is Detroit's Mayor Albert E. (for Eugene) Cobo, 62, who has been elected in nonpartisan contests to seven terms as city treasurer and three as mayor. Cobo's supporters think that the popular mayor, who has always pulled a big vote in Democratic Detroit despite the opposition of Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers, might cut into the heart of Governor Williams' strength...
...Later, dealers beg him for pictures, but Stephen declaims: "Success, especially popular success, imprisons the spirit." He paints only "to satisfy himself," and soliloquizes: "We're all mad, or half mad . . . perpetually in conflict with society . . . All except the ones who compromise." He, of course, "has never done that...
Chronic heavy drinking can and does alter facial features; and it produces no Olympic winners, except in bobsledding. But an occasional beer is harmless. If legal restrictions were limited to heavy drinking, popular support might make effective enforcement more possible. If a large segment of bartenders' sales were made legal, they might join with the law in preserving the health of the beardless minor. And by robbing drinking of the romantic character given by its illegality, heavy consumption might decrease...
...Bourse Egyptienne." It was taken from the first of two articles published in the monthy French literary magazine, "Les Lettres Nouvelles," under the title of "L'Ete Americain." The author attended the Summer School here last year and upon his return to France wrote what is apparently a very popular and easy-to-sell type of report. "La Bourse Egyptienne" headlined the article: "Harvard University, New Convent where alchol is prohibited but psychoanalysis is familiar, and where students work for the pleasure of earning money." The editor printed the excerpts because of their "new point of view, not tainted...
...glance through the catalogue reveals the danger of making generalizations about either students or their interests. While arts and crafts are the most popular courses, subjects range from "Why the Weather" to "Five Plays of Bernard Shaw" and "The Art of Decoupage." Those to whom current events are a mystery may take "Whats Going On?" while conversationalists who read can enroll in "Books and Coffee." There is "Bach for Beginners" and "Bird Study," "Poetry Writing" and "Playing Popular Music." Nine language courses are taught, and no fewer than eleven different music courses are on the curriculum...