Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, the only formally declared candidate for the presidency,* has a problem. His campaign managers have carefully written a moderate's role for him. on the reasonable theory that it will be popular with the voters. But whenever Humphrey takes the speaker's stand, he invariably throws the script away and becomes a wildcat liberal, promising the world to his listeners. "And the people in front of him just don't want the world right now," explains a worried Humphrey advocate. In his offstage moments, Humphrey himself senses the public...
...sense, Hubert Humphrey arrived on the political scene too late. His brand of liberal was more at home in the mid-New Deal years, when a popular politician was the intellectual spellbinder who opened the floodgates of the U.S. Treasury with his Phi Beta Kappa key and let the dollars flow over the Depression-parched land. Humphrey's problem is painfully shared by all Democratic liberals. In midsummer 1959, it is growing ever clearer that the Democrats have all but come to the end of the line on the New Deal-born issues that have served them...
...meter run is a slow, not very popular race, a dogged, grinding test of endurance that usually sends the track fans ambling out for hot dogs. But not last week, when the best U.S. team ever assembled met the best from Soviet Russia at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. Far ahead was Russia's tireless Alexei Desyatchikov. Yet the eyes were not on him. All heads turned toward the other three men-two Americans and a Russian-struggling against time and tortured bodies to win honor and points for their countries-three for second place, two for third...
...characteristics of the modern theatre are its isolationist status on Broadway and its highly commercial outlook which makes for little artistry and attracts to production staffs a host of "ignoramuses and vulgarians," interested only in popular entertainment and high profits...
...lack of writers and actors in the tradition of high comedy, he pointed out, is another failing of American theatre today; and he condemned as mere "journalism" the popular practice of the dramatized novel...