Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refreshing to read your Dec. 5 exposé of the foreign chicanery that accompanies "leadership" toward free trade. Your article certainly illustrates that it is a lonely leadership with few, if any, foreign nations joining the parade. Thank you for the concluding paragraph: "The popular cry has been that the U.S. is hamstringing free trade. Actually, the U.S. has steadily lowered its tariffs, while most other nations have raised theirs...
Eden's new team is yet untried, its record still to be written. But last week the Tories got a clear warning. The latest public-opinion polls, by the Daily Express and by George Gallup for the News Chronicle, both show that Labor now leads the Tories in popular favor for the first time since the election...
...Will Be Done." Two conflicting traditions of religious painting, almost as old as Christendom, are revealed in Fra Angelico's early work. The Virgin of the Star, where the Christ child tenderly reassures his mother, is one of the few paintings in which Fra Angelico yielded to the popular taste for the sentimental. The future glory of Fra Angelico's work is first declared in the Annunciation scene done for the church of San Domenico in Cortona (see p. 54). Here the Virgin sits serenely with hands folded across her breast in a gesture that sums...
...presents Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors; Max Liebman brings back a new version of Babes in Toyland. Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Tony Martin, Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Steber, together with unnumbered choirs, glee clubs and choruses, will work their way through a long list of popular and pious tunes, ranging from I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus to Adeste Fidelis. CBS radio is not content with bombarding listeners with music. For a full hour on Christmas Eve, Bing Crosby will urge travelers in railroad stations across the U.S.-from Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal...
...Though Randolph carries on a special vendetta against what he regards as the invasion of his own family's privacy, he campaigns outspokenly in columns, speeches and letters to the editor against all that riles him about British journalism, from the accent on sex and crime in the "popular" press (which led him to brand the press lords "important pornographers and criminologists"), to the smugness of the august Times...