Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farmers. Most farmers remain prosperous; yet west of the Mississippi, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson "remains a prime liability . . . Some Midwestern Republicans are showing themselves more popular than the President because of their known opposition to Benson's farm policies...
Labor. There is "a popular desire that labor unions be brought under some sort of control." But at the same time Republican candidates are being hurt by their support for right-to-work laws in such states as California, Ohio and Indiana...
...Humphries, 16, explained things to the Houston police one afternoon last week. Her stomach was upset, so she stayed home that day from Reagan Senior High School, where her 142 I.Q. and hard study made her a teacher's pet even though shyness kept her from being as popular with the boys
...basic articles of faith in the beard-and-sandal set is that no woman alive sings jazz like Ella Fitzgerald. Ella it was who schooled a whole generation of vocalists to phrase and improvise like jazzmen; Ella, too, who popularized scatted lyrics and the word rebop. But Ella has always moved with equal ease through the palm-frond world of popular dance music, and Jazz Impresario Norman Granz set out to prove it by issuing a series of albums on his own Verve label featuring Ella in great pop hits. Latest addition to the series: Ella singing Irving Berlin...
...other Ballet Theatre new works, Swedish Choreographer Birgit Cullberg's Miss Julie was an unqualified success. Long popular in Europe, Miss Julie sticks closely to August Strindberg's savage little drama of the same name about a neurotic, highly sexed "half-woman" who seduces her family's butler during a wild celebration of Midsummer Eve. Shamed by the images of her aristocratic ancestors, she forces him to kill her. (In the original she commits suicide.) Danced by Violette Verdy and Erik Bruhn, it successfully translated the purely psychological tensions of the original into movement that was both...