Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stutterers have been put through pain by unfeeling people, and when a character like Porky Pig and a song like K-k-k-katie are made popular, we realize just how inhuman these people are. We are intelligent citizens who hold respectable jobs and would prefer to be treated as such...
However, in spite of the popular sentiment that favors hoarding America's wealth for Americans, it is almost certain that there will be many more of these unauthorized human beings entering the United States in the coming years. Economic conditions in Mexico are so wretched that the United States looks like the promised land in comparison. The vast majority of Mexico's 63 million people earn less than $20 a month; devaluation of the peso has brought on 30 per cent inflation and "effectively halved the incomes of those fortunate enough to hold jobs," according to The El Paso Times...
...debate over the issues of welfare reform and federal aid to cities, more and more people have begun to see beyond the blinding gloss of the new ethnicity to the bottom line, reactionary impulse that lurks behind. Signs of this exposure are even now surfacing in the popular press. Side by side with its "Is America Turning Right?" cover story several weeks ago, Newsweek magazine ran a photographic "who's who" that resembled nothing if not a mug-shot line-up of the intellectual ringleaders of this drive to turn back the progressive, egalitarian tide. "There's no new right...
Tall, thin, bearded Principal Edwin Barker is popular with students and community alike. "He does a good job walking the tightrope of an innovative school system and a conservative backlash," observes one parent. Says Barker: "I'm a believer in basic skills, but I want to do it in a humanitarian environment." Discipline is fairly loose. Barker downplays such issues as drugs (ditch weed, the crude local variety of marijuana, is common), discipline, smoking and leaving school without permission. "We have a lot of people coming and going," admits Barker. "Keeping them in school is not one of our high...
...point where we're too old to be playing with crayons," says Dave Spears, a black inmate enormously popular with the kids. He has been talking and listening to a youth who has come in from the Worcester Detention Center, a lock-up for juveniles who have committed violent crimes...