Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris. A short, stocky man in a black topcoat hurried out of the old grey stone National Assembly building on the Quai d'Orsay. Minutes earlier Pierre Mendès-France had been Premier of France, the most popular, brilliant and energetic man to hold the office since the inception of the Fourth Republic. Now, ringing in his ears were the hoarse shouts and curses of his colleagues in the Chamber of Deputies still panting from the bitterest, most vindictive and unseemly overthrow of any Premier in recent French history...
...will deny that some sports are more popular than others. A football game will always draw larger crowds than a fencing match. Yet from the player's point of view outside popularity is arbitrary. Baseball has declined considerably since the twenties, and though spectator appeal sustains basketball and hockey, track and crew depend upon tradition for their headlines and their "major" status. The H.A.A. has faithfully tried to reflect the student body's interest, as in 1938. It has never, however, elevated a sport primarily for the players. This de-emphasis of the individual player is evident in the present...
...Socialists, who have been the most responsible party in the Assembly for the last several months, are almost certain to follow him in him reform projects, along with parts of the Gaullists and his own Radical Socialists. The real key to political stability may well lie in the Catholic Popular Republican Party and here Mendes-France faces his most vexing problem. At present, the popular Republicans are his bitter enemies, primarily because of his attacks, on their Indochina and EDC policies. But in social and economic policy, Popular Republicans too are a party of the Left. They have pledged themselves...
Above all, Mendes-France must realize that he can never again be the "lone wolf" of French politics. Opposition for the sake of revenging himself on his political enemies may seen tempting, but in the long run it would harm his program and his popular standing. The role of leader of the opposition is likely to be even more challenging than that of premier. By adopting a constructive attitude towards the new government, Mendes-France will hasten he day of his own political triumph...
...There is also the competitive factor to consider," he continued. "Why should undergraduate organizations show popular movies in tax free buildings when local theatres must pay taxes to show the same films?" he argued...