Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't really matter what Olivia Newton-John sings. She could probably make selections from Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, popular country or rock songs. Her producers realize that the best way to guarantee top record sales is to put as much of Olivia's picture on the jacket as possible...
...book chronicles the careers of the people who've made millions by performing the reverse operation, whereby the questions are transformed into certainties, and the know-it-all into the most popular kid on the therapeutic block...
This book is a somewhat patronizing but generally fair examination of a topic that notably agitates otherwise calm people. It would certainly help the popular reputation of traditional therapists if they presented their findings in such a lucid fashion as the author of Psychobabble. Rosen quotes Gore Vidal that "most of our writers tend to be recorders," yet he himself could never be mistaken for one of that dreary band. Unlike the psychobabblers he decries, he doesn't practice what Jacoby called (and Rosen recalled) "the monotonous discovery of common sense." Instead, he reminds us, skeptically but never petuiantly, that...
Nothing mocks the democratic pretentions of the Communist nations more than a mass protest. Twice in recent weeks, East bloc governments have been embarrassed by such signals of popular discontent. Items...
...sound of him was always unmistakable. To many, and surely to most Americans beyond a certain age, his voice was one of the few verities of popular entertainment. It seemed to dance out as irresistibly as a whimsical sigh of relief, full of fluid and breezy resonances perfectly suited to the fragile and often sticky sentiments of the romantic era that swept him to superstardom. His way of crooning was, as well, exactly attuned to the easygoing personality he projected onstage and in most of his 60 movies. His style was so relaxed-almost sleepy-that it was hard...