Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Legion-and Ringley-politics in action. In 1953, Illinois State Commander Lawrence Fenlon announced that he wanted to run for national commander. Ringley publicly endorsed FenIon's candidacy. But he quietly passed the word that he really favored Connecticut's Arthur Connell. Reason: Fenlon was so popular in his own state that he was becoming a threat to Ringley's control of the Illinois Legion. Connell won easily, Fenlon dropped out of sight, and Ringley remained the master of the Legion situation...
...Social Democrats (19 seats), the Republicans (5 seats), the Liberals (14 seats). For four days he scurried around a sweltering Rome, bargaining and counterbargaining. As courtesy required, he also paid a call on Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni, who is panting to bring his fellow-traveling Socialists into a popular front. Segni rejected Nenni's offer; there are Christian Democrats who want to play footie with Nenni, but Segni is not one of them...
...axiom of Central American politics that no regime stays popular very long. Professional people and university students are restless over Castillo Armas' continuing government-by-decree, dismayed by his government's apparent lack of political and technical know-how. The President himself complains that most of his economic advisers are "no-idea men." And until he can launch a program to encourage business and raise living standards, the threat of a "prolabor" Communist comeback will not disappear...
...most popular painter in the world today, judging by gallerygoers' reactions and reproduction sales, is the sensual impressionist, Pierre Auguste Renoir. Leonardo commands greater awe, but awe is a long way from affection: at the Louvre it is not the tourists but the Mona Lisa who smiles. Van Gogh had more passion, and for a time his popularity surpassed even Renoir's, but Van Gogh's best pictures are explosive compounds of joy and sorrow, more calculated to disturb than to please. Never a shadow of sorrow crosses Renoir's canvases; he painted simple, earthly pleasures...
...bamboo tubes, using instead a tiny flower or bud stuck in an empty lipstick container, the cap off a toothpaste tube or an empty perfume bottle. Sofu even went so far as to dye flowers, incorporate red bird feathers, use dried grass, withered leaves and dead flowers. A current popular Sofu arrangement: a dead lotus pod with a purple delphinium...