Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THAT'S ALL pre-Fox plan. Dean Fox took two facts--that the Quad was less popular than the River Houses, and that there were freshmen at the Quad but not at the River--and concluded that no one wanted to live in a House where freshmen were always getting underfoot. He also called to mind the salubrious effects on freshmen of a "unified freshman experience," and herded his youthful charges into the relative safety of the walled-in Yard. Since the Task Force on Counseling concluded earlier this year that freshmen were better adjusted to college when they lived...
Harvard experts on West Germany agree that the recent wave of terrorism in that country may lead to a government crackdown on terrorist activities supported by a wide popular consensus...
...Leventritt Competition, as soloist in the Ginastera Piano Concerto No. 1. Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") should be a proud showcase of the talent of the HRO instrumentalists. The orchestra has also selected the Overture to "The Magic Flute," one of Mozart's finest and most popular short works. The concert is Saturday at 8:30 at Sanders Theatre. Tickets are available at Holyoke Center...
...JERRY JEFF WALKER came to came to Harvard Square a week and a half ago, few people from outside the South gave much thought to his concert. Most Harvard students did not know who Jerry Jeff was. Progressive country music--much less real country western--has never been very popular in this area. But on Friday, October 21, thousands of expatriates from Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and other rural states poured into the Harvard Square Theater to stomp their feet and clap their hands at some of Jerry Jeff's fiddle music and heave an occassional sigh at his more...
...productions in New York this month, a third soon to come, and movie and television shows in the offing. Whether or not a faddist gothic revival is under way, there is a pervasive skepticism about unrationed faith in rationality and a blind unqualified faith in science that engages the popular mind at the present moment. One character in the Broadway Dracula sums it up this way: "The scientific facts of the future are the superstitions of today...