Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Better advertising as well as making tickets available to the surrounding colleges earlier will generate a larger crowd for the B-52's than for Vega. "They have a hit album out, and it won't be any problem selling out in the Boston area where they are very popular," Kim said...
There is a very dangerous trend in this country, and in the world in general, to focus attention on problems of current popular interest, leaving other equally pressing but less publicized matters unaddressed. Saving our forests is certainly a very popular issue these days. Thousands have responded to increased media attention and the pleas of pop stars like the Grateful Dead and David Byrne by hopping onto the arboreal bandwagon. The fate of the world's forests and woodlands is indeed an important issue, but what about the other less trendy "wet spots" on our hypothetical...
...begun buying larger, less gas-efficient cars again. Similarly, Americans seem to be all too quick to forget about conserving water until shortages appear. Furthermore, the general public seemed ambivalent about the depletion of the ozone layer until the media sounded a general alarm. As soon as it was popular and politically expedient, thousands chose to "get involved...
...inside of dorm room doors saying "Are the lights turned off? Are all the faucets completely shut?" would constitute a small step towards preserving our national resources. A University poster drive addressing environmental concerns would also help. Why must the Harvard community only address the most urgent and popular of problems? All I'm asking is that we look beyond the trendy environmental issues of the day and pay some attention to the environment as a whole. A little foresight can go a long way! Jason Kaufman...
...find an example of this blind spot, we need look no further than the most popular course on campus this semester, Gen. Ed. 105, "Literature of Social Reflection." Taught by renowned psychiatrist Robert Coles '50, the course offers a reading list of predominantly white male authors, like James Agee, George Orwell, and Raymond Carver, although it does include a smattering of women and minorities, such as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, and Flannery O'Connor. The authors and texts, supplemented by occasional movies and documentaries, are divided into categories like "Ordinary American, So-called Working Class Men and Women: Several Angles...