Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There seems now a national inevitability about Teddy Kennedy. He is the most intensely popular public figure in America today. It is as if he is certain to be President-or be another Kennedy tragedy. "I hope he runs," breathed one admirer, "but, oh, I hope he doesn't." None of us-including the Senator himself -seems to have control over this desire for another Kennedy. We want to feel good again...
Even the most knowledgeable American pop-music fan would be hard pressed to identify Dean Reed. But in the Soviet Union, the Denver-born country-and-western singer is more popular than Frank Sinatra. His frequent concert tours of Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back...
...ideas were not always popular. Though South Sea tribesmen affectionately remembered her as "Miss Mark-it Mit," former Florida Governor Claude Kirk called her a "dirty old lady" after she appeared before a Senate committee hearing and urged decriminalization of marijuana smoking. Envious colleagues griped that Mead, who appeared on television talk shows to endorse everything from greater international cooperation to women's liberation, was "overexposed"; conservative academicians called Mead, who chaired or served on more committees than anyone could remember, an "international busybody." But young people loved her, partly, as Bohannan recalls, because "she never talked down...
Carter has plenty of opportunities to make further change. One popular proposal is to create an apolitical board to review all regula tions, set priorities and eliminate much of the confusion and expense of conflicting laws. At the same time, all regulatory agencies and their current rules could be made subject to a "sunset law" that would require a regular examination of whether or not the original aims were being achieved and were still necessary...
...whatever medium he chose. Convinced that pleasure was an essential component of literary criticism, Plomer preferred the engaging voice of a raconteur to the severe objectivity of a scholar. "Why should we be hardened?" he wondered. "Who wants to be a fossil?" This generosity of spirit made him a popular figure on BBC radio and television, which he mastered despite his professed aversion for modern technology...