Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contrary to popular opinion, the ratio of gin to vermouth does not determine the strength or dryness of a martini. What most martini authorities seem to ignore is that chilling the drink on ice does more than make it cold: it cuts the strength of the gin with water. Try chilling your favorite martini formula in the freezer instead of using cracked ice. It'll be hard to get down. CHARLES F. BIRRELL Harrisburg...
Another feature of the campus is the modern Students Arts Center, used by singing, dancing, and drama groups. The arts form a major part of the average Sarah Lawrence girl's life, and for many girls, art is more than an extracurricular activity. While literature is the most popular field of concentration, visual arts, performing arts, and music rank fairly high on the list. At any time of day, a visitor can enter Reisinger Auditorium and expect to see some sort of impromptu performance...
...group, only four spoke English well, Vlasenko, Krivopalov, Voschinin, and philogy student Elvira Astafyeva, and as might be expected they often were the most popular with students. A special word must be said for Vlasenko who perhaps won the hearts of a score of Radcliffe girls with his charm...
Many a network official was trying frantically last week to prove that (in the words of a popular commercial) he was Mr. Clean. So busy was the TV industry at its new purity kick that, according to the latest Madison Avenue gag, "CBS is about to move Church of the Air to prime evening time." NBC finally got around to bouncing the admittedly corrupt Tic Tac Dough, chose an apt replacement: Truth or Consequences. Still another lavish NBC giveaway, The Price...
Darts & Volleyball. Casbah's first 36 fellows got mired in false starts and misfired projects. Recalls one charter scholar: "We didn't know what to do with the freedom. By Christmas the two most popular people were the two analysts. Everybody wanted room on their couches. We began to form committees and seminar groups, until everybody began bitching about too much organization. Then we settled down, and in the last six months we did a prodigious amount of work...