Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their demand for more political freedom. So flimsy a pretext was an insult to North Africa's faithful. Morocco's urgent nationalists flatly refused to accept the weak and wizened old man whom Paris foisted on them in Ben Youssef's place. Ben Youssef, never very popular as Sultan, became in exile a martyr...
...uneducated. The educated present Britain's face to the world as a nation of people who are readers of the Times, Telegraph and Guardian. The uneducated present no face to the world because their faces are buried in the Mirror, Sketch, Herald, and all the other popular papers...
...Many a community in Britain where the national papers are read also has its own "provincial" daily, e.g., the Yorkshire Evening Post, Liverpool Echo, etc. They are not only much smaller than the national popular dailies but usually much quieter and less sensational as well...
...made upon him. A work of art is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion." Inness' Delaware Water Gap (see color) goes on awakening pleasurable emotions in visitors to the Montclair, N.J. Art Museum. Painted in 1859, it is the museum's most popular picture...
Modestotality further demands: 1) "Think centrally, which is to say, believe in nothing, but give your loyalty to any popular cause in the vicinity." 2) "Work centrally . . . You should not rise to the top. Get ahead, but moderately." 3) "Play centrally. Never be a champion . . . You will know the joys of coming in second when the chips are down." The reward for all this: "The ecstasy of mediocrity...