Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usually, when popular magazines handle articles on modern art, they treat it like a beast that might get out of control and kill off half of their subscribers. Your Feb. 13 Art section showed that another type of writing on modern art is not excluded. Thank you for reporting well on "Abstract Expressionism," America's biggest contribution to Western art to date...
...Nehru has already pronounced Moscow's changes "welcomed in every way.") By their acceptance of peaceful change, moreover, Khrushchev & Co. hope to make time with Socialists in France and Italy. They may succeed with a new generation, but older Socialists are likely to ask why not a Popular Front on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and where are the Russian, Polish, Czech and Rumanian Socialist leaders of yesteryear...
...Communist triumph can be achieved in some states "by parliamentary means" instead of civil wars. Therefore, rally into popular fronts with the Socialists to "capture" parliaments. This is the line Communist Tito, sometime heretic, has been preaching from Yugoslavia; he promptly wired his "comradely greetings...
Standing alone, Karamanlis last week won Greece's most important election since 1946. His National Radical Union took at least 155 seats out of 300; later returns may bring his majority over the opposition Democratic Union to 22 seats. The Democratic Union actually polled a higher popular vote-49.8% to Karamanlis' 45.8%-but it failed, through the complicated workings of the electoral law, to translate its advantage into seats...
...street now and stamped on the American flag," he said, "I would be instantly mobbed. But if instead, I went out and yelled 'Down with the Jews!' people would just say that I was crazy and walk away." He explained that such actions would show the popular interest in a national symbol and not in people themselves...