Word: popularizer
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...never formed a national government. Usually winning between 16 and 22 per cent of the national popular vote, and never having won a single seat in Quebec, the NDP does not have a realistic chance of forming a government in the near future. About the most the NDP can realistically expect in Canada's upcoming election is to repeat its 1972 electoral performance and gain the strategic balance of power position in Parliament...
...this secular age, God is not very popular among composers. One notable exception is Krzysztof Penderecki, 45, a Polish Roman Catholic. He has written a St. Luke's Passion (1966), Dies Irae, an oratorio for the victims at Auschwitz (1967) and a Magnificat (1974). For the past four years, Penderecki (pronounced Pen-de-ret-ski) has labored on a huge, lofty project: recasting Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, into an opera. But last week, in its world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Penderecki's huge effort failed to justify the ways...
Woodblock prints have become synonymous with Japanese art. Later Japanese Prints by Richard Illing (Phaidon; 64 pages; $9.95), an anthology of 65 examples (33 in color), surveys the vital 19th century tradition in which the print was produced and sold as a popular, commercial art form. Broadsheets celebrating the Kiabuki theater, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, samurai heroes, and witches and demons from Japanese folklore sold like rice cakes in the capital of Edo, now Tokyo. Yet despite their wide appeal, these prints were the work of master craftsmen who painstakingly carved up to a dozen separate blocks to produce one multicolored...
This grim picture of the winter holidays accumulated in psychological literature and passed, during the last generation, into the popular domain. These days it can be casually overheard around almost any office, street corner or watering hole. Indeed, many Americans have begun to sound, and a few to act, as though the appropriate way to navigate the holidays is with a clipboard and psychiatric checklist for keeping track of casualties...
...fretful is the atmosphere achieved by the clinical view that some people are even turning to ever increasing preholiday workshops that offer to help them "cope" with seasonal stress. This trend in popular therapy reached a bizarre pinnacle this year with the scheduling, in New York, of an eleven-day "antiholiday" workshop starting three days before Christmas. It was conceived by a therapist who says she and her followers hope to "create new rituals and celebrations" while at the same time they cure themselves...