Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Bradford may soon confiscate the script of Cambridge's most popular comedians...
Every university has its own raison d'etre. Virginia wins football games, Yale trains popular song-writers, and Harvard nestles saugly by the Charles, For many centuries Harvard men haven't given a hoot about most things, but they have always hotly defended their right to nestle. New, the traditional nestling, which among other details depends on having a low, compact skyline, threatens to be violated, and no one is becoming angry. What has happened...
...most popular painter in the world today is probably Vincent Van Gogh. The public of today, that honors him, is prone to feel superior to his own public of yesterday, that ignored him, and to forget that a better way to judge its taste is in the respect it pays to the original talents of its own day. The 14 Van Gogh masterpieces on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week had all been painted in the last years of his life. Looking back, it was hard to see how anyone could have been blind to them...
...interesting to note that the seven Roman Catholics in the class shared these general ideas. They knew no more about their religion than the rest, in spite of the popular myth that 'at least the Catholics know what they believe...
...Owned the Sow? The feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys is surely one of the great U.S. folk stories. It has sunk into the popular mind with Li'l Abner connotations, a confused impression of moonshiners, hillbillies, revenue officers, and verbs with "a" in front of them ("I don't feel like runnin', I'm a-goin' t'fight"). Actually, the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a tragedy, violent and unrelenting, with its characters, doomed and possessed, living their parts with fixed intensity...