Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was a lot of serious talk about why alienation appears to decrease where one can rely on the third-party intervenor, i.e., why Action Lines are so popular. "Poor people have services provided," theorized Rita Levine of WELI'S Call for Action in Hamden, Conn. "Rich people can buy them. People in the middle get squeezed. They feel impotent in the corporate marketplace. They complain, get rebuffed and figure, Why bother? Well, we bother for them...
Time magazine likes to call it the "New Mood on Campus"; those of a less charitable bent might refer to the phenomenon as "festering pre-professionalism.' But for the average Harvard student, the list of most popular courses released this week--top-heavy with guts and premed courses--contained few surprises...
...courses were as popular as last year. Astro 8, long a favorite of the football and hockey teams, dropped more than 120 students in enrollment from last year--a fall that could have something to do with the efforts of course instructors to tighten up requirements...
Some professors clearly understand the dynamics of course selection. Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology, who teaches Nat Sci 19, "Biology and Behavior through the Life Cycle"--a newcomer to the popularity list this year--said he believes the course became popular because "there are a lot of people looking for a less demanding, labless Natural Science course...
Wylie, who teaches the popular Soc Sci 160, "Nonverbal Communication," said "we communicate with everything at our disposal," including sounds other than voice, gestures and the rhythm of our speech...