Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...becoming a household word, Spiro T. Agnew learned that lampoonery is the most devastating weapon in the political armory. "Look what's happened to me," the new Vice President complained to a friend shortly before the Inauguration. "Six months ago I was a fairly popular and successful Governor. Now I'm being called the village idiot...
...think you could have made a much better choice with very little effort. I don't like it." But, countered one of his colleagues, Schlesinger is a noted historian and Pulitzer prizewinner aside from having been a special assistant to the late President Kennedy. So he's popular. So what. "Some people even say he's made a lot of money," snapped Payne. "So did Dillinger...
...York; Simon is program director in sociology and anthropology at Chicago's Institute for Juvenile Research. Both writers found that Freud's views on sex are not only misbegotten but unrealistic and sadly out of date. One of the reasons that his theories still command popular respect "is that in a world fraught with instability and change, one wants to be able to hold onto a few universals. Freud tried to define an inner core of constants in man." Among them he placed the sex drive, and in a period of rapid change, it can be comforting...
...thing, getting it is another. The rent control board with its elected majority would, in practice, exercise only a loose overseer ship love the administration of the bill. The bulk of administrative duties would rest with a bureaucracy which, like all others, would be only sporadically sensitive to popular pressure. Given limited resources, such a bureaucracy would likely respond only to complaints pressed over a long period through its channels. It is doubtful that many lower income lower income residents would have the time or resources to press these complaints. Middle class, not lower class tenants, would probably have...
Working with a group of Bermuda residents, the Theatricals established the Fund in memory of Miss Lang, a popular artiste who passed away two years ago to enable a talented Bermudian of college age to study art in England for a year...