Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between the age of 17 and 18 1/2 may serve six months on active duty and three years on ready reserve, and a man from 18 1/2 to 26 may serve six months on active duty and 5 1/2 years on ready reserve. The latter alternative has been very popular with college seniors and graduate students who preferred six months active service to two years, the normal term of a draftee...
Stewart, preparing for a teaching career, still hopes to get into open court, if only with a civil libel suit. "Reforms never come without agitation," he said last week. "And the role of the agitator is never popular or pleasant. But I am confident that once the laymen get the truth, they will save Methodist preachers from humiliation and the Methodist Church from disgrace...
...Delacroix, whose Amadis de Gaule hangs in the adjacent room in the Virginia Museum, made storm and strife the very center of his painting, and became the great painter of the 19th century Romantic movement. Choosing a scene from the popular 14th century Portuguese romance of chivalry, Delacroix depicted the Good Knight Amadis de Gaule (whose exploits took him from Britain to Constantinople) as he strides, plumes tossing, to greet the Princess Olga, after he and his companions have forced the castle of treacherous Galpen. Banners wave, steel clashes on steel, the air is loud with clamor, even...
...most popular movies in the U.S. last month, according to Variety...
Reach for the Sky, the most popular picture (gross: over $1,500,000) shown in England during 1956, is based on Paul Brickhill's lively biography (TIME, Aug. 2, 1954), and has Kenneth More-the bachelor in Genevieve-in the title role. Actor More, who is probably the world's ablest portrayer of damn-the-torpedoes extraversion, gives a cracking good imitation of a fighting nature that thrived in adversity. Yet the show, more or less, is More-or less. The script suffers from a kind of paraplegia of the narrative instinct, and the fly-stuff never gets...