Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Popular Demand. In Rochester, William B. Ransco ran an ad in the Times Union: "Notice is hereby given that my dear wife has still another driver's permit. Please exercise extreme caution...
...President's goal, as Democrats found out in reading the mail from their constituents, proved to be astonishingly popular. In doing what he thought best for the nation's economic health, Dwight Eisenhower apparently was giving the people just what they wanted...
Although Emily Dickinson lived, in the words of Conrad Aiken, "a life perfectly devoid of outward event," there was one great mystery about her. To an even greater degree than was common among New England mystics, she was a recluse. This, according to the most popular, though by no means only, theory, was due to an early, unsuccessful love affair with a married man. Alison's House is based on this interpretation of Miss Dickinson's life, despite the fact that Alison Stanhope, the Emily Dickinson of the play, has been dead eighteen years by the time the play takes...
...audience, unless it comes prepared with texts, is likely to miss much; the listener is denied the luxury of pasuing at an evocative metaphor, and if he stops to puzzle over a line, he is likely to be left behind. Nevertheless, readings remain a rather popular local form of entertainment, and two Pulitzer Prize winners, Stanley Kunitz and Richard Wilbur, attracted a good hot-night crowd to New-Lowell Lec last week...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a young lawyer who lives in a split-level home in a New York City suburb won election last week as speaker of the New York state assembly, ending the traditional hold (69 years) of powerful upstate G.O.P. forces on the job. Popular, hard-working Winner Joseph F. Carlino, 42, is the son of an Italian politician who quit Tammany