Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young intellectuals, most of them lapsed Marxists, who are now attacking Marxism as an evil, obsolete ideology that leads inevitably to totalitarianism. The "New Philosophers," as they are known, have become overnight celebrities-featured on magazine covers and on TV talk shows. The New Philosophers have no wide popular following and are unlikely to have much impact on next March's elections, when France's Socialist-Communist coalition hopes to win power. Nonetheless, Socialist Party Chief François Mitterrand has promised to write a rebuttal to their views, which he says are "too important" for off-hand...
...thing to challenge this belief and quite another to write a novel showing it to be false. Authors who try generally find themselves accused of going soft, of frivolously aping the Pollyanna fadeouts of popular schlock. To counter such charges, Fowles fills Daniel Martin with plenty of reasons for contemporary despair: war, poverty, tyrannies of the body and mind, mankind's apparent inability to do anything about problems except augment them. His hero tries "to discover what had gone wrong, not only with Daniel Martin, but his generation, age, century; the unique selfishness of it, the futility, the ubiquitous...
Blondie is thought to be the most widely distributed comic strip, with some 1,700 clients worldwide; Jack Anderson, with about 600 clients, is probably the most popular columnist. There is no way of knowing for sure; nor will the syndicates disclose how much they charge newspapers for their wares. The fees are based on circulation; the least a small daily can pay for any feature is probably $5 a week, and the $325 a week the Bulletin (circ. 541,000) was paying for Doonesbury is probably near the top end of the scale. Any feature that does not eventually...
...Chile's experience is less significant because of Pinochet's bloodthirstiness than it is because of the nature of the government that preceded it, and the method in which that government was overthrown. Allende was elected by a popular vote on a platform calling for a peaceful transition to socialism. During its three years in power, the Popular Unity government--a coalition of Chile's leftwing groups--nationalized the country's coppper mines, gave the land of absentee landowners to the farmers who worked it, and took the first steps toward enforcing a more equitable distribution of income...
...first time since the Spanish conquistadors came to Latin America, Chile's poor and working class had enough to eat; for the first time, they had elected a government interested in helping solve the problems of inadequate housing, unemployment and illiteracy that plagued them. The Popular Unity government was dedicated to eliminating the imperialist and monopolistic structure that dominated Chile's economy, in the hope that by doing so it would end the centuries-old exploitation of the Chilean people...