Word: popular
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...Prince of Conservatives," as Harvard Magazine recently dubbed him, is almost at home cooking the first full meal of his life. While he is more comfortable teaching a popular class on ancient and medieval political philosophy or conducting research on his new book, entitled Manliness, Mansfield also enjoys being provocative. His hyperbole becomes campus controversy. He calls gay sex "shameful." He speculates that the rise in black students at Harvard has led to grade inflation. He repeatedly warns against the dangers of disrespecting manliness...
...Belgian cartoon from the '20s to the '70s. People used to tease him for his haircut -it was sort of smooth but stuck up in the front-but now everyone has that haircut. TinTin is marginal in the U.S., but for some reason he's been a popular subject for French intellectuals. They have many, many books on him--one says he's a drunk, one says he and Captain Haddock, his companion, are lovers, and several claim the author, Herge, was a Nazi." Vaux is currently translating TinTin into a number of endangered languages--Singaporean English, Calypso (an English...
...arrived at the Middle East Club at 7 p.m. on October 18, planning to interview Chicago rocker Wesley Willis, a 6'5", 300+ pound schizophrenic whose most popular song is either "The Chicken Cow" or "I Wupped Batman's Ass." He head-butted me and told me to come back...
...surface, it is difficult to see why Healy isn't popular...
Candidates are reluctant to say that--advocating the return of rent control is a popular stance--but the likelihood of rent control making a comeback as a galvanizing issue is faint. And while there was an effort to get a rent-control initiative on the ballot, even rent control advocates admit its only purpose was to get people to the polls...