Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moralists who preached that the Lord's wrath had wiped out the sinful city were answered by a popular ditty: If, as they say, God spanked the town For being over-frisky, Why did he burn all the churches down And spare Hotaling's whiskey...
...nature a devious one. The story of John Kasper does little to reaffirm one's faith in the people's judgement. Kasper has now gone the way of Father Coughlin and Father Feeney, but his little-mourned departure from the segregationist ranks is not the result of a popular reaction against his views or his tactics. These views and tactics simply turned...
...East. In upper Manhattan a saloonkeeper from County Cork recently had his ceiling strung with fishnet, his mirrors adorned with palm fronds, and proudly announced the conversion of the back room into the Ekim Calypso Dock. Mid-Manhattan's Le Cupidon closed down when calypso became popular, re-draped itself in hammock and palms and reopened two months ago as a calypso club with a Bahamian trio, two steel drummers. It has since added a converted blues singer named Anne English, now "Lady English," and two Harlem hat-check girls turned dancers. Oldest (eight months) calypso cave is Third...
...result is an infinitely complex music which bears some slight resemblance to modern jazz and Schoenberg's twelve-tone system. The wonder to Westerners is that the ancient music of India is also the nation's most popular music. It has caught on so rapidly during the last decade that Shankar and other top artists (who get up to $2,000 a performance) have no difficulty drawing crowds of 40,000 to open-air music festivals...
...Doughnut Method. The operation (which, with variations, had been duplicated almost simultaneously in Boston and in Britain) "suddenly became too popular and was being done in practically every country hospital," says Bailey. In 1953 Detroit Surgeon Forest Dewey Dodrill convinced Bailey that his operation was still not good enough, and Bailey worked out improvements that are now widely used...