Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans Were Popular...
This success as a story-teller is, however, only one aspect of the author's technical skill. By presenting the saga in the form of a fairy tale, the author has freed himself to present his own view of the world, untrammeled by popular prejudice and preconception. To create a hero or to pit man against fate in the world of familiar experience is next to impossible, for the modern reader has long taken for granted the scientific proposition that man makes his own history, no matter how far from his hopes it may appear...
...result, course conflicts are not often perceived until the publication of the year's catalogue, and at this point any changes are more confusing than constructive. Sometimes the Committee on Educational Policy, the only central organ at all, hears of conflicts, but usually only when they are among popular courses. Generally, the faculty attitude is that attempts at rational systems are fruitless and that the scheduling of courses is and should be an organic process...
...silent Rin-Tin-Tin series that Warner decided to shoot a barrel of profits on a daring experiment: The Jazz Singer (produced by Zanuck), which starred Al Jolson and ended silent films with a spoken line ("You ain't heard nothing yet, folks!"). Always keen to sense a popular trend, Zanuck took advantage of the movies' gangster cycle by featuring such early hair-triggered tough guys as Edward G. (Little Caesar) Robinson...
...thing; feelings are quite another. What parent would have the nerve to call a kidnaper's bluff-to play, in effect, a game of poker with his own child's life? Ransom! is the story of a man who had the nerve. Based on a popular television play by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum, it is a fairly conventional thriller that says, in substance, something much better than conventional about the truth, and how dreadful is the operation by which it makes a man free...