Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torn between conflicting philosophies, the student may turn away from Judaism completely; or he may come back to it with new intellectual tools, seeking to mold a familiar image. "Some people think that Judaism becomes more respectable when it wears the cloak of popular philosophies," Rabbi Gold said. "It is quite likely that students prefer to discuss Jewish questions on grounds more familiar to them: how does religion relate to things taught them at the University? How does it fit in with different philosophies?" Religion is discussed from the reference frame of their new value system. This is inimical...
...even more popular alcohol department, the guests have consumed 75 cases of liquor and 300 cases of beer and ale thus far in the reunion. Yesterday 22 bartenders were busy keeping the Class of '34 happy--and happier and happier...
...drowned out by ragtime and its successors; square dancing was not revived in a big way until the 1930s, when the late Dr. Lloyd Shaw formed a dance school in Colorado Springs, organized the famed Cheyenne Mountain Dancers. Since then, square dancing has grown every year as popular entertainment, with about 10,000 callers now active (the best of them make as much as $150 a night) and two dozen record companies providing recorded calls. There are an estimated 1,000,000 serious square-dance buffs in the U.S., as dedicated to learning the intricacies of the ladies' chain...
...last of these complaints came last week, with passionate and justified indignation, from Marcello Orano, 56, once a successful author and one of Italy's popular heroes, now with no claim to fame save as Europe's best known and worst treated leper. One of a family prominent in education and government, Orano was a dashing cavalier who served as a colonial official in Africa, wrote novels (three of them made into prewar movies), had a bewildering succession of marital relationships, and once turned Moslem...
...Popular Sport. Most European stocks do look so attractive that throughout the Continent brokerage houses are becoming as popular as coffee houses. In France, where the De Gaulle government recently liberalized imports and devalued the franc to the free-market rate, the general stock index has jumped 24% in 1959. In West