Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though generating a good deal of popular enthusiasm, the Governor was having less luck in getting wary politicians to line up behind him. In Chicago, he was greeted with cool detachment by Senator Charles Percy-who, like Hatfield, may see a vice-presidential nomination for himself under Nixon. In Ohio, Governor James A-Rhodes, who controls 55 of his state's 58 votes, likes Rocky's style but still awaits a more impressive showing in the polls...
...points began deplaning in Venice. The students called on the artists to refuse to let their work be shown. In a few cases, they added threats to destroy work on display but surprisingly often the plea alone fell on sympathetic ears. For years, the Biennale has been about as popular as the only roulette wheel in town. Italians complain that the bureaucrats who administer it, under a Fascist law originally enacted in 1927, discriminate against Italian artists whom they dislike. Foreigners gripe about the oversize Italian pavilion and the reams of red tape. In the 1950s, when the Grand Prix...
...used outside the trade, soul's arrival is even more significant. Since its tortuous evolution is so intertwined with Negro history and so expressive of Negro culture, Negroes naturally tend to value it as a sort of badge of black identity. "The abiding moods expressed in our most vital popular art form are not simply a matter of entertainment," says Negro Novelist Ralph Ellison. "They also tell us who and where...
...painstaking approach to toymaking began in 1880 in the Giengen dressmaking shop of Margarete Steiff, Hans-Otto's great-aunt. Partially paralyzed by polio since childhood, Margarete happened on the idea of fashioning toy elephants from scraps of felt and cloth for use as pincushions. They proved so popular with friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made the German company...
...commentaries about the stock market first appeared in New York magazine. The articles were not only clear and authentic, but also sharply satirical. Based on those articles, The Money-Game is a highly original look at the art of investing, as well as a modest and amusing contribution to popular psychology. Smith/Goodman tells about the young woman who confuses her shares in Comsat with procreative urges ("'Every time they fire off one of those satellites, I think, that's mine, that's my baby!"). And the people who obsessively call their brokers just to feel a part...