Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Gun. Even though he had won his 1954 election by a landslide, even though he still holds broad popular support in a general election, Knight could see that he had hardly a chance of winning the gubernatorial primary-and that his fight could only hurt his party. When word of his decision to run for the Senate seeped out, other California Republicans joined in happy sighs with Norman Chandler: "It will be a relief to get this thing settled...
Rumor-mongering, almost as popular a sport as saucer-spotting, has given birth to a whisper that the Russians have launched a third satellite. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, however, said late last night that he had received no word of such a move and doubted the authenticity of the story...
...escape from the tedium of daily life. And of course, everything must turn out for the best and true love triumph in the end. Hence, too, the "star" system in which the viewer identifies himself with a particular actor and the actor with a particular role. The popular film is thus required to create and sell folk myths which are satisfying and reassuring to its audience. The American film industry "threatens to replace reality with illusion outside the movie theatre...
Harvard hicks, however, cannot turn to other stations to hear their favorite ditties, for, as Elton Britt said, "thare jist aint eny." Hillbilly music is not sufficiently popular in the Boston community to warrent commercial radio stations playing it. Yet at Harvard it has a large and devoted audience, whose interests should be recognized by the only station which operates exclusively for Harvard students--WHRB...
WHRB, despite its professional broadcasting and programming standards, does nevertheless have a responsibility to the Harvard community, and as long as hillbilly music remains popular here, it should be played. The titilating voices of Earl Scruggs and Wee Willy Tyler must not forever be kept silent...