Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago classics scholar Erich Segal was forced to leave Yale after he published Love Story, a bestseller about a love affair between two Harvard students. At the time, it was argued that it was not appropriate for a scholar to write popular fiction, or even to be familiar with...
According to choir president Elspeth R. McIntosh '90, this concert is unique since all-cello choirs are still rare in the United States, compared to their popularity in European countries. Cello choirs "are much more popular in Europe than they are on this side of the Atlantic," McIntosh said...
Born in Long Island and educated at Brown before coming to graduate school here, Mallon agrees that his novel is popular fiction because its goal is to entertain. But, he says, "there is a sort of literacy involved" in understanding the novel, which is filled with literary and political allusions...
...change in public attitudes over the years can be traced in three popular films--the early Front Page, which sentimentally celebrated cynical and amoral Chicago newspapering; All the President's Men, which ennobled the journalism that brought down Nixon; and the more recent Absence of Malice, which examined the way an unfeeling reporter damages personal lives. Both the latter movies, unlike Front Page, argue that the press does matter; the first for the good it can do, the second for the harm. What caused the change in attitude? In his valedictory speech last year as president of the American Society...
...doesn't stop there. In brilliant rhetorical style he advances from a defensive position into a high-flung moral argument, invoking Tocqueville's "tyranny of the majority" to defend his representation of that poor, tyrannized campus minority, final club members. Mr. Cooper will not, he says, "yield to popular passions on issues of prejudice or discrimination" against final club members...