Word: popular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...catalogue, with their dark-hued old sounds partly hi-fizzed through electronic tinkering. The first series contains all of Tchaikovsky's six Symphonies performed by such fictitiously named orchestras as "Centennial," "Warwick," "Cromwell."* The second batch, called The Heart of the Opera, contains excerpts from eleven popular operas (Carmen, Faust, Figaro, Traviata, etc.), some of them excellently sung by voices that are familiar music-room words.† The sound is poor to moderately good, but the price ($1.98 per LP) is just fine. Furthermore, the disks provide a brand-new musical guessing game...
...last week the steady inroads of these price-fixing monopolists on Britain's pocketbook had turned free enterprise into a popular rallying cry. "Who are the greatest enemies of private enterprise?" thundered Lord Beaverbrook's powerful Sunday Express. "Not the Socialists. Not the Communists. The deadliest enemies of private enterprise are the foolish men who damage and undermine it from within. The worst harm of all is inflicted by the irresponsible recklessness of price fixers...
...ears . . . Brand-new famous-name sewing machines . . . for the fantastic price of only $18 . . . Call now!" Over the air from many another radio and TV station around the U.S., other excited announcers offered similar "bargains"-which almost always turned out to be fakes. To admen and reputable retailers, this popular form of electronic huckstering is known as "bait advertising." Says Denver's Better Business Bureau Director Dan Bell: "The greatest single cause of consumer distrust of advertising today is the widespread use of bait tactics . . . It has been termed a national scandal in business...
Since bait advertisers calculate that one housewife in three will buy the high-priced model, the pattern is repeated daily in thousands of U.S. homes. In Seattle, vacuum cleaners are popular bait. Radio station KOL advertised a rebuilt vacuum cleaner for $8.95, but a demonstration showed that it lacked the suction to extinguish a match, and the salesman switched to a $120 cleaner...
...country's Ambassador to the U.S. (1927-33) and its most distinguished writer-diplomat since Chateaubriand. In 1935. he retired to devote all of his time to writing. Although most of his plays were heavy with Roman Catholic symbolism and too long for staging, he became a popular as well as a critical success in later years with the postwar productions of his operas, Christophe Colomb (music by Darius Milhaud) and Joan at the Stake (music by Arthur Honegger). Claudel insisted, in his 27-year correspondence with his friend, Novelist André Gide (The Correspondence Between Paul Claudel...