Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no right to join ROTC because ROTC provides junior officers to enforce America's policy which supresses popular revolutions, he said...
Perhaps the biggest break with political tradition came in turbulent Puerto Rico, where the ironhanded 28-year reign of Luis Muñoz Marín's Popular Democratic Party was rudely shattered by millionaire Luis A. Ferré, 64, a "statehood" Republican whose New Progressive Party was formed only last year. Slight and elegantly tailored, Ferré defeated the P.D.P. candidate Luis Negrón López, thanks to a diversion of popular votes to Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella. Ferré is unabashedly pro-American; the art museum that he founded and funded in his native Ponce was designed to symbolize the interaction...
...typical field trip for Anthropology 2675-2, "Graffiti: Past and Present," which Reisner teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Though conducted with much low good humor, the course is anything but frivolous. The graffito, explains Reisner, "is always a sensitive barometer of change in popular preoccupations. It is a twilight means of communication between the anonymous man and the world...
...Miami Herald is not only Flor ida's largest newspaper (circ. 369,000) but a most outspoken crusader against crime and corruption. Three years ago, its chronic complaints about law en forcement in the Miami area were directed at Dade County State Attorney Richard Gerstein, the powerful and popular (if unsuccessful) prosecutor of Candy Mossier, ex-president of the Na tional District Attorneys' Association and much-decorated B-17 navigator. The Herald often wondered aloud why Ger stein kept turning up at race tracks, gam bling casinos in the Bahamas, and the Miami area's less savory...
...symphony orchestra, a museum of fine arts, a municipal opera company or a repertory theater group, you have a problem: fund raising. An increasingly popular three-step solution, is to: 1) gang up with all the other local cultural organizations under one catchy acronym, 2) persuade people and companies to donate tax-deductible goods and services - the more wildly improbable the better, and 3) auction them off at a fancy benefit party, making sure that there is plenty to drink to keep the bidding spirited...