Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), one of the most popular conductors of his day, saw to it that his Faustian symphonies and yearning song cycles were performed as often as possible. But he knew as well as anyone that his music was way ahead of its day. "My time will come," he said. And now it has. Today the record companies lavish the kind of attention on him that they used to reserve for Beethoven and Brahms. Some choice items from a recent batch...
...Brasil, however, printed a wry weather report that bore no relation to actual meteorological conditions. "Weather black," it said. "Temperature suffocating. The air is unbreathable. The country is being swept by a strong wind." With parliamentary democracy and the rule of law temporarily suspended once again, the wind of popular resentment may well increase in velocity. What Costa e Silva and his generals may have overlooked is that in classical drama the fifth act is also usually the last...
Ruff-Puffs. Under the accelerated program, contested hamlets-and a few that are enemy-controlled-are entered by government Regional Forces or Popular Forces (nicknamed Ruff-Puffs...
...effects of marijuana on its users. It therefore came as a surprise last week when a team of Harvard and Boston University investigators reported that they had just conducted the first truly scientific tests ever made on the subject. Their findings, which appear in Science magazine, confirm some popular ideas about marijuana's effects and expose others as completely false. The drug, the investigators concluded, "appears to be a relatively mild intoxicant, with minor, real, shortlived effects." It seems to have a greater effect on thinking and perception than on reflexes and coordination...
Patman's probe focused on that mystique-shrouded feature of Swiss banking, the anonymous numbered account. Robert M. Morgenthau, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, testified that such accounts have become increasingly popular with Americans. Some who use them are underworld hoodlums, but many more are otherwise ordinary businessmen who play the Swiss numbers game to cheat Washington out of "tax revenues in the many millions of dollars." The various ways in which such accounts are used to avoid income taxes, said Morgenthau, "are almost as numerous as the ways of earning money" (see box next...