Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most popular Democrat in the country, yet he sometimes seems strangely isolated. One day last week he stood alone in the kitchen of his house in McLean, Va., turning a couple of steaks in the broiler. His red-checked shirt was open to the waist of his khaki slacks, revealing a thick mat of hair, now graying. The huge house echoed with memories, but now it was empty and still. Kennedy's wife had been living in Boston, away from the family for more than a year, and his children were at Cape Cod for the summer...
...cases suggest that a name is not a passive label. Some names, weirdly enough, manage to penetrate to the core of the named, achieving a profound fusion, becoming inextricable. Certain names become so incorporated with the acts or traits or destinies of their owners that they pop into the popular vocabulary as common nouns and adjectives: Cain, Jeremiah, Job (the Bible is a storehouse of such), Machiavelli, De Sade, McCarthy. The same peculiar joining of character and name occurs all the time, even in the fictive world. Romeo is as inseparable from the youth so named as he was from...
Some psychologists argue that popular self-awareness and self-assertion literature has helped push motorists to violence. But University of Chicago Psychiatrist Lawrence Z. Freedman, who served as an Adviser to the Presidential Commission on Violence, may be closer to the mark. Heterogeneous groups tend to produce more violence than homogeneous ones, he says, and the highway population is predictably heterogeneous, filled with drivers of different ethnic backgrounds and classes. In other words, many naturally aggressive people tamp down their hostility on their home turf, but unleash it on "aliens" after minor collisions...
...terrain is rockiest in fields that are increasingly popular but are not expanding significantly, like journalism, and those that depend heavily on government funds, like oceanography. But the prospects are good to excellent in many careers. Health service administrators, engineers, registered nurses, accountants, bank officers, Catholic priests, computer programmers and systems analysts are among those expected to be in demand in the next decade. The BLS notes that while a bachelor's degree ensures a good chance at a job, a graduate degree in any of these fields would be an especially marketable asset...
Today National Lampoon, the brainchild of Douglas Kenney, Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman, is a show-biz empire of comedy. Not only has the magazine been a huge success (circ. 600,000), but it has also launched popular spinoffs: books, records (three Grammy Award nominations), stage revues, a radio show. Better still, the Lampoon has nurtured a new generation of comic talent. Many of the creators of NBC's Saturday Night Live, including Michael O'Donoghue, the Chief Writer, are Lampoon alumni. That show's Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Players Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner...