Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schlesinger's course in American intellectual history is now one of the most popular in the College. At the first meeting this year, he stood before an overflow crowd of three hundred and announced with his dead-pan expression--"Let's all petition for a bigger room." Schlesinger delights his packed lecture hall with a unique combination of insights into intellectual trends, ironic descriptions of American religious prophets, and quips about conservatives from Fisher Ames to John Foster Dulles...
...last week Pollster George Gallup kept grasping for adjectives to describe the upsurge in Estes Kefauver's popular support. First, Gallup reported that since he last polled them a month ago the number of Democrats favoring Kefauver has jumped from 18% to 33% and the number of independents from 25% to 29%. (During the same period Stevenson supporters among Democrats had dwindled from 51% to 39% and among independents from...
...Summer School is becoming increasingly popular. Each year enrollment climbs, and this is not because there are more students than usual who fail courses during the regular two terms. The facts of the matter are really quite simple. Take a look at the official register for this year's session, for instance...
...only recommended course which would not encourage overemphasis or faculty control is that on the development of drama. The subject, like the present course on "Drama Since Ibsen" would be popular, useful, and not in violation of the College tradition of teaching theory and not practice...
Admittedly, most of the '46 heroes are gone now. Of the three remaining, Al "Red" Schoendienst has had his driving license stamped "Restricted to Glasses," and Stan Musial has trouble loping in from the outfield. And poor Ted Williams, though still the most popular slugger since Babe Ruth, doesn't like to play on cold days...