Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wood, a graduate of the Cornell Hotel School, said Radcliffe has its own committee of student "food service reps" who meet with him once each month. The students have requested, for example, more chocolate chip ice cream, favored even above the popular "Heavenly Hash." Student response has generally been favorable to Currier House cuisine, Wood adds proudly...
...side, New York City Mayor Ed Koch last month recommended that all vendors be required to provide proof of state and city sales tax payment, and display the selling price of all items. Such rules would be even harder to enforce than the present regulation that puts some popular areas of the city off-limits. The public does not support clean-up efforts, apparently feeling that a patrolman's time might be better spent tracking down muggers than peddlers. Moreover, peddling is part of the city's tradition. At least one prominent Manhattan department store family, in fact...
...folks-but I can't judge what's relevant." He further fesses up: "I find it very difficult to sing songs I can't connect with." Bok, however, can make some arcane connections. Sources for songs include Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "an acquaintance with a few local seals, and a series of very striking dreams" that provide Bok with images of burnt skies and a world ruled by wind. He seasons his shanties with Gaelic and Eskimo and has attempted a Mongolian tune now and again too. "I don't sing...
...tiny group of consistently best-selling novelists, Morris West qualifies as the brains of the organization. That will give you, as Groucho Marx used to say, some idea of the organization. Still, West's popular fictions, like The Devil's Advocate, have regularly favored byplay over foreplay, concepts over jet-set conceits. Rather, than reading the public mind, West has specialized in suggesting what it ought to be thinking...
Finally, democratic institutions simply are not as democratic as they look in civics textbooks. Bureaucrats, who actually run so much of government, may be as insulated from popular accountability as judges, and legislatures are notoriously swayed by special-interest groups. By offering redress to people with no special political clout, says Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe, judges give otherwise disenfranchised groups a voice in the way public funds are spent and Government affects their lives. Activist Tribe complains that what really irks critics of an interventionist judiciary is not activism per se but the (often) liberal results. Says...