Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Correspondent Piero Saporiti flew over the Andes for a first, fresh-eyed view of Peru, its economy and policies (see Progress to Prosperity in HEMISPHERE). While in Lima, Saporiti tried a dish called ceviche, which is popular in many Latin American countries. When he asked for the recipe, the cook said, "All you do is take a corvina [a black-finned fish] and leave it in lemon juice for three hours." Saporiti asked: "What next...
...left-wingers at San Marcos University (which is 85 years older than Harvard) saw in the national division the makings of an extremist mass party. A silver-tongued intellectual named Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre thereupon founded a movement called Apra (from the Spanish initials of Popular Revolutionary Alliance of America...
...Kerr, a playwright himself (Sing Out, Sweet Land!), that playwrights start to relearn what their audiences prefer: "No great play has ever come from what might be called a minority theater . . . The presence of the uncultivated mass ... is an indispensable prerequisite for drama of genuine stature ... At worst, the popular theater holds the fort; at best, it finds its way to Hamlet...
...professor is not sure that he should make regular predictions of the eruptions of Mihara, once so fashionable for romantic suicides. Any increase in popular interest might make it the rage again. "There is a social problem," he says apprehensively. "The steamship company would advertise and make money...
Turning Points In History. For a while CBS radio advertised the show with modest pride as "our 69th most popular program." The show has never sought and never had a sponsor. Moderator Bryson, a florid, white-thatched Nebraskan, is the animator of the show and knows how to keep the talk lively and the air from going dead. "The goal of the program," he says, "is to get a wider and wider public to read those books out of the history of the world mind which are readable, and also to discuss books that are turning points in history which...