Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both in & out of jail, Blanco has endeared himself to his people with his songs and coplas-short four-line verses on popular themes. A Caraqueño recalls: "Late one night about five years ago, we were sitting in a beer garden, drinking and listening to an urchin singing. A man wandered in from the street and sat down with us. For the urchin's song, he improvised a copla, and the boy tried to make one up, too. Then the man improvised verse after verse for an hour-about each of us, about the beer garden, about...
...Molly (by Gertrude Berg; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay, Herbert Kenwith and David Cummings) makes stage figures of those long-popular radio voices, The Goldbergs...
...about the nature of the atom. But he knows almost nothing about the nature of God, almost never thinks about it, and is complacently unaware that there may be any reason to. Theology, the intellectual system whereby man sorts out his thoughts about faith and grace, enjoys much less popular appeal than astrology. With its "devolutionary theopantism" * and "axiological eschatology,"* theology is jaw-breakingly abstract. And its mood is widely felt to be about as bracing as an unaired vestry...
Professor Pound slammed the popular notion of an influential Communist Party in China. "There are scattered Communist agitators and conspirators here and there," he said, "and in the North there are Communist armies." But he claimed the leaders of these armies are like the old war-lords whom the National Government has overthrown...
...Reveille in Swingtime," a new program of popular music for early morning listeners, made its debut over WHRV yesterday morning and will continue as long as there is a demand for the 8 to 9:30 o'clock show...