Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe in F.D.R.'s greatness, and in the necessity for the New Deal in the setting in which it took place. Both, however, must stand the test of rigorous analysis, and I therefore welcome Professor Robinson's book . . . The political habit of undermining popular respect for the opposition by the use of picturesque epithet is as old as the nation. I can think of many real classics stretching all the way back to Washington's Administration, when John Adams referred to Alexander Hamilton as that "little West Indian bastard." . . . To hold F.D.R. responsible for McCarthy because F.D.R...
Noting that pink has become the U.S. color of 1955, in house furnishings as well as in clothing for both men and women, Chicago's H. W. Gossard Co. (girdles) last week announced a change of policy. Instead of emphasizing its recently popular blacks, blues and reds, Gossard will feature a new line of foundations in pink. Psychological research, said Gossard, had shown the reason for the U.S. color trend: "Pink represents a mood of sentimentality, good times and luxury...
...which fill one room of his Rome apartment. Born near Pisa in modest circumstances, he worked his way through college, was an early leader of the Catholic workers' movement, was decorated for gallantry three times in World War I. A founding member of Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party, predecessor of the Christian Democrats, Gronchi served briefly in Mussolini's first government in 1922, but rapidly soured on II Duce and was forced out of public life by Mussolini's displeasure. A leader of Italy's underground in World War II, he served as Minister...
...Henry I of England died in 1135 "of a surfeit of lampreys," a popular dish in the Middle Ages...
Miss Smith proved to have a pleasing voice, though it was impossible to understand her words. Simon made every syllable perfectly clear. He was joined by soprano Ann Hollander and the two viols in an extraordinarily moving performance of the deservedly popular Ich sag ade; but why, the second time through, did they choose to end in the middle? The six instrumentalists turned in fair jobs, with the exception of Ich stund an cinem Morgen, whose rhythmic complexities, even on a second try, seemed to preclude staying together...