Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indeed the evidence seems to suggest a "law" of popular gravitation to democratic freedom. Within the past five years there have been violent outbreaks in East Berlin, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Communist China. Today the Soviet rulers threaten West Berlin. Why? It is simple. It is because they have been put on the defensive by the inspiring demonstration there of what free men can do. Internally, Red China is feverishly imposing a communization program designed quickly to transform the Chinese nation into a great military and industrial power. The program involves human slavery, and cruelty on a scale unprecedented...
...thoughts to themselves. Result: a vacuum of leadership. Those businessmen who profess moderation run the risk, if not of dynamite, of economic reprisals such as loss of jobs, promotions, trouble with city licenses, city contracts, harassment on petty auto mobile offenses, tightening up on loans, etc. Mayor James Morgan, popular with businessmen, in office since 1937, is privately telling friends that he intends to resign next year - "I used to enjoy going to the City Hall. I don't any more." Housewives who profess moderation run the risk of social ostracism. White ministers, asked to help improve communications between...
Fischer-Dieskau is also one of the most consistently popular opera singers in Germany; aided by an imposing 6-ft. 2-in. figure, he has shaped a number of moving characterizations, e.g., Wolfram in Tannhäuser. Sir John Falstaff, and the title role in Busoni's Doktor Faustus. Even more surprising than the scope of his success is the fact that he had no early singing experience: he took his first voice lesson when he was 16, had scarcely started to sing professionally when he was drafted into the German army. As an American prisoner...
...Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; book by Mr. Hammerstein and Joseph Fields) proves to be thoroughly professional, has Miyoshi Umeki, Pat Suzuki and other nice performers, has some agreeable dancing, some gorgeous costumes, here proof of a jolly Rodgers and there of a dreamy one. As purely popular musical fare, the show should fare handsomely. But as Rodgers and Hammerstein, it not only lacks the talent of their top-drawer work, it seldom has the touch. Flower Drum Song is passably pleasant in its way, but its way is strictly routine...
Even sweeter for King is the fact that he now stands alone as a giant of the press, just as did his famed uncle, Alfred Harmsworth, first and last Lord Northcliffe and turn-of-the-century founder of Britain's popular press. (Amalgamated was founded by Northcliffe, strayed to other hands after he died in 1922.) King (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955) has the level, grey-blue eyes and careless forelock of his uncle, whose picture hangs behind his blacktopped desk. But the two men are fundamentally different: the mercurial Northcliffe had a sure instinct for mesmerizing the masses; King...