Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insisted that he himself had had nothing to do with the Princess' decision. "Of course," he said, "she took advice, and she chose whom she took it from." And then he added, with a bluntness that distressed even some of his supporters: "We are fighting against a great popular wave of stupid emotionalism." The Archbishop's attitude on divorce, huffed Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, "makes it inevitable that the question of the disestablishment of the Church of England must be urgently examined...
...Britain's House of Commons, it is often good politics to make a show of courting unpopularity: members are inclined to suspect any attempt to be popular as evidence of bad taste. Last week Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler remembered good politics as he rose, white-faced and grim, to defend himself against a Labor censure motion condemning him for "incompetence and neglect." The week before, Butler had been scourged by Labor's ambitious Hugh Gaitskell, a former Chancellor himself, who demanded that Butler resign (TIME, Nov. 7). Now Butler set out to defend...
...recent establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, foretells a deal with Moscow for a neutralized, reunified Germany completely divorced from the West. Although Chancellor Adenauer clearly will not make such a deal, these commentators fear that the so-called "growing demand for reunification" will push a less popular and powerful successor into doing...
...Protestant Church that would be willing to buy a united Germany from Moscow. But in general the western worries are unfounded because they are based on a false interpretation of the "demand for reunification." Reunification is the prime political issue in Germany today, but it is not a popular one. The unity movement is not a swelling of public opinion, but a political device to convince the Western powers of the great German demand for reunification and at the same time to stoke up that very pressure among the Germans themselves. Calling a group "The People's Movement for Reunification...
...harpsichord was dead, victim of the piano's lower cost and wider range of expression. The twentieth century, however, has seen the harpsichord revive to the extent of attracting compositions from such modern composers as Harvard's Walter Piston. The instrument has also found a place in popular music ("Come On 'a My House"), and it is even being taught at Yale. On Sunday afternoon a Yale professor honored Harvard with a concert that illustrated the reasons for the harpsichord's revival...