Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obsessive Questions. Nixon started off pleasantly by ad-libbing an apology for pre-empting the time of a popular humor program, went on to tell his listeners about his "impressions of this country and its people." He praised the "beauty and culture of Leningrad," the "inspiring pioneer spirit of Novosibirsk," the "magnificent ballets," the "drive for progress." He had been struck, he said, by the Soviet people's "capacity for hard work, their vitality, their intense desire to improve their...
Land Reform. One reason Quinn ran so well in the outlying islands is that he managed to make a popular campaign issue out of a problem that of all others is peculiarly and basically Hawaiian: the land shortage...
Still, there were no signs of popular resentment. "Oh. westerns may sometimes bore." said one Londoner 'ast week, "but for comedy shows the Americans' are so far ahead that we can only raise our hats and say. 'Tney went thataway...
...mistress had its world premiere in Boston twenty-four years ago, to critical acclaim but only moderate public support. After Gershwin's untimely death in 1937, it was successfully revived on on Broadway by Cheryl Crawford in 1942, with the important addition of occasional dialogue. In this more popular operetta form, it has since become a part of our musical heritage and an international box-office success...
...that musty look of the faraway and long ago; visitors were hard put to assess them by contemporary-and so often geometric -standards. One critic noted that Dame Laura painted like a man. Said she in London when she heard of it, "What man?" Another called her a "popular painter," which roused her British ire the more: "Don't call me popular. I paint what I see, and I don't gild the truth." The truth through her eyes could be seen in the show's best canvas: a pain-racked image entitled Convalescent Gypsy...