Word: popularizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admittedly, there is a risk in reviewing a comic strip that has run fewer than a dozen times. Usually you wait for a cartoonist to find his rhythm and his own particular voice. But Breathed has been cartooning a widely popular strip for most of this decade, so I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of time. He has shown arrogance in flushing his successful "Bloom County" to begin this "Outland" strip. One naturally expects a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist to show us his best stuff early to quiet his critics...
...first year at Harvard, "Lisa Morris" had a roommate whom she suspected was bulimic. Popular, efficient and of average weight, her roommate would eat and eat and then spend a lot of time in the bathroom...
History is a popular discipline among undergraduates today; it regularly places in the top one or two most popular concentrations and draws many graduate students, as well. Women's history, on the other hand, has been a perennial gaping hole in the Harvard curriculum--despite, or perhaps because of, the role history plays in determining the relative status of various groups...
...house printing is another alternative taken by some professors trying to avoid the Coop. Gregory Nagy, Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, says that he decided this year to put more than half of the reading for the popular Literature and Arts C-14, "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," into a sourcebook available in the Science Center stockroom...
...titles from many of Harvard's most popular courses--such as Literature and Arts C-14, "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization"--cannot be found on Affordable Books' shelves...