Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is that a presidential candidate needs more than a popular plurality to win the election-he must also gain a clear majority in the Electoral College, which now has 538 electors. The Twelfth Amendment (1804) requires separate electoral votes for President and Vice President. But this originally clarifying rule has long been a potential source of confusion. If the popular winners lack electoral majorities, the House selects a President from among the three candidates who have received the most votes in the Electoral College. The Senate Dicks a Vice President in the same fashion, but considers only the leading...
...decision has not been referred to Congress since 1824, when Andrew Jackson lost the presidency (he later won it twice) despite having collected 42.2% of the popular vote, against 31.9% for John Quincy Adams and 13% each for House Speaker Henry Clay and Georgia's William H. Crawford. In the Electoral College, Jackson's three opponents denied him a majority. In the House, Clay threw his support to Adams, who thus became President. Though Clay hotly denied Jacksonian charges that he had made a deal, he was soon appointed Secretary of State by Adams. Tempers ran so high...
Forced to grope into theatrical history for an apt comparison, for a composer who was to the mainstream of Broadway music what Bacharach is to that mainstream now, I'd settle on Harold Arlen. Arlen too had a popular bent, wrote songs consciously and expressly for Negro singers, was by nature incapable of the straight, bright, terribly Broadway, Broadway tunes of which any second-rank Cole Porter creation is the perfect example, and on all these counts had to be regarded as an organism slightly foreign to the theatre (Mr. Arlen will of course forgive the laws of parallelism...
...stick so close to life in its physical and emotional details as to leave no room either for clever allusions or technical bravado. The long and the short of it is that they're new (at least in the romantic world of Broadway success stories where writing the finest popular songs of the day counts for nothing), they're different, and they're here...
Personal Record. In their voluntary exile, the reclusive wen-jen introduced a style that was to last for centuries. Abandoning the sweetly colored realism of the late Sung court painters, they developed a powerful expressionism that glorified a painter's unique "handwriting." Landscapes and bamboo stalks were popular because such subjects put a premium on brushwork. Colors and perspective were largely abandoned, human figures casually sketched...