Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peace in Cloud Valley. Born in the small farming hamlet of Akahama in 1420, young Oda Toyo entered a Zen Buddhist temple at twelve. According to popular legend, he was a wayward boy, overfond of drawing. Tied to a wooden pillar as corrective discipline, he at first wept copiously, says legend, stopping only when his tears made a pool on the floor which he used as ink, with his toes for brushes. Oda Toyo's talent was early recognized and fostered, including apprenticeship to the painter Shubun, the leading practitioner of Chinese-style paintings of his day. Not until...
Inside, the great cry is for better planning, more closets and storage space, bigger kitchens and bathrooms. On the West Coast, many builders consider that "two full baths are a must." Oversized living rooms are growing less popular. Instead, families ask for a smaller, more formal living room for guests and a second, paneled "family room" for everyday living. As for living rooms themselves, today's buyer wants a fireplace in a $10,000 house, whereas 87% of the $10.000 homes in the 1955 Labor Department survey had no fireplace. On the other hand, the great picture-window craze...
...popular belief is that a war scare sends the stock market up. Last week the New York Stock Exchange proved the old saw false. Exactly the opposite is true. In a study of violent, day-to-day market fluctuations (2% or more change on the Dow-Jones Industrial average) from 1935 to 1955, the exchange reported that in 58 wide swings where war news was a factor 51 were downward. Of the seven advances (between September 1939 and June 1940), all were attributed to the hope that the U.S. would not get into the actual shooting, but that increased foreign...
...novelist bent on discrediting a popular idea may choose to 1) give the reader an intellectual hotfoot, i.e., singe his brain with a better idea, 2) tickle his funnybone with satire, 3) clout him over the head with the blunt instrument of anger. British-born Novelist Geoffrey Wagner belongs to the blunt-instrument school. His mallet of malice falls on psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, its high priests, practices and pretensions. With scarcely a smidgen of saving humor, but with much righteous wrath, The Dispossessed argues that Freud, Jung, Adler, et al. are bloodletters of the psyche whose theories will eventually...
...Truly it can be said of Dwight Eisenhower, that he would rather be popular than be the dynamic civilian leader of the American people," he charged. "This may be the way to win the opinion polls. But I question very seriously whether it is the way to govern a country...