Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the emotional intensity has spent itself, it is clear that Harvard did not suffer, but grew in popular respect because of her refusal to make concessions in order to placate an irascible, if limited, public opinion . . . . Because the faculty, administration, and governing boards worked and stood together in this difficult situation prolonged during two years, a very precious internal health and sense of community within the University have been incalculably strengthened...
...society, some papers have actually gone out and made society news. For example. Chicago Daily News Society Editor Athlyn Deshais last year ran a contest to select the "New Queen of Chicago Society" (TIME, Jan. 18, 1954); it proved to be one of the paper's most popular special features. With readers finding their own names and those of their friends on the society pages, newspapers have found that expanded society coverage is paying off in increased circulation. With the change, many a society reporter and socialite has belatedly come to recognize the truth of Alva Johnston...
Unfortunately for Morland's career and subsequent reputation, few contemporaries could match his prodigious consumption of alcohol.* But through the years, Morland's work has kept a kind of dogged popularity. Last week a show at London's Tate Gallery, commemorating the painter's death in 1804, showed one reason why. No English painter has left a more powerful or popular picture of rural Old England. A man of common pleasures himself, Morland, through his work, has addressed himself over the centuries to the common man's comprehension...
...Paradise, Red Sky in the Morning), regional historian (Kennebec: Cradle of Americans), lecturer and professor of English at Maine's Bowdoin College: of a heart attack; in Portland, Me. Raised on a Maine saltwater farm, Coffin began writing poetry while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, soon became a popular favorite for his nostalgic ballads of Maine life and Maine people. An ardent believer in poetry as a popular art, he read his works to audiences all over the U.S., inveighed against the "shoddy and jaded intellectualism" of most modern poets, called instead for "instances of beauty that make mankind...
Taboo lingers on, Russell feels, in the popular objections to euthanasia and birth control. Russell asks: "Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think H can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked." The problem of ethics grows as it is touched by religion. Biblical authority, says Russell, is sometimes contradictory: "Should a childless widow marry her deceased husband's brother? Leviticus says no, Deuteronomy says yes (Leviticus...