Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflicting attitudes towards proposals that tutorials or seminars be given in the Freshman year. Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English, viewed the proposals with skepticism. Citing the "gigantic cost" of House tutorials, he called the suggested Freshman innovations "largely academic." The present work overload on the staffs of popular departments such as English, he claimed, would also make extension of tutorial to Freshmen very difficult...
...meddling soldier: FADE AWAY." In just as unseasonably warm tones, the British press has been lecturing Adenauer, De Gaulle or any U.S. Senator who has anything harsh to say about Russia, as if to speak firmly were to jeopardize the chances of negotiation and peace. London's popular press presents the Berlin crisis not as a struggle between Russia and the West, but between a peace-loving Macmillan and an obstinate Eisenhower (whom former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge last week described as the "poor, meandering old President") and inflexible old men in France and Germany. Fortnight ago, when NATO...
...nationalized publishing house rushed their efforts into print, and reluctant bandleaders began to climb on the wagon. Even that old turkey-trotter Gerart Eisler turned up to grace a Lipsi demonstration, and his comments suggested that there might be further refinements to come. "Somehow, 80% to 90% of all popular songs deal with love," complained Gerart. "One can create very comical political lyrics...
...surprises. There were so many Oscars available (23 in all) that Gigi, winner of the Best Movie award, was able to dance off with eight subsidiary awards without really hogging the show. Best Actress Susan Hayward (7 Want To Live!) and Best Actor David Niven (Separate Tables) were popular favorites. Nobody disapproved of Burl Ives's Best Supporting Actor award either. Nor was the crowd too upset that Britain's Wendy Hiller was named Best Supporting Actress for her relatively small role in Separate Tables...
...Sweat." At first popular only in the East, handball was taken up by the Y.M.C.A.s, got a big lift in the '30s when the Federal Government's make-work programs built hundreds of outdoor courts. Inexpensive to play (a good pair of leather gloves costs only $5), the sport now claims some 5,500,000 participants. "When you're young, you play singles and run and sweat," says one handballing Chicago doctor. "Later you take up doubles, and when you're 70, you pick a strong partner and just putter around...