Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sword does turn up, after some unlikelihoods normal to popular adventure. Perhaps it was Arthur's, but Burgess, who invented it, now seems to feel that it doesn't much matter. Both he and his characters discount Welsh nationalism as unserious playacting. One of his protagonists, in exasperation, chucks the sword into a pond, where it sinks without a deathbed speech. He explains, "I had to grasp a chunk of the romantic past and find it rusty." Which does not entirely answer a last-page question to the author: "What was that all about...
ARAFAT is currently courting the backing of Western powers for his message, but support for him within the Palestinian camp remains unclear. Key Palestinian factions have indicated their disapproval for Arafat's initiative. A joint statement by the heads of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, George Habash, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Naif Hawatmeh, "Arafat's Geneva statements do not commit the PLO to anything and they do not represent official policy." Arafat's statements also "contradicted the resolutions adopted by the PNC [the Palestine National Council...
...news conference, Dukakis denied that he was attempting to put a gun to the Legislature's head by proposing a generous local aid increase, which is politically popular on Beacon Hill, linked to his tax package, which is politically unpopular...
...students turning away from the sciences? Some of the reasons might be the exaggeration of the departments' difficulty. The sciences may arguably be more taxing than the humanities and social sciences--they are more sequential, and most entail weekly labs. But popular opinion widens the gap (if there is one) between the difficulty of the sciences and non-sciences. Students may think they could not fare well in the sciences when indeed they could...
Last October a similar popular uprising deposed the leadership of the ethnically diverse province of Voivodina. But when Montenegrins tried to follow suit a few days later, riot police brutally crushed their demonstrations. This time police did not intervene as protesters demanded that the government step down for abusing power and mismanaging the economy...