Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embroil the U.S.-was not exactly total war. In Beirut harbor, water skiing, yachting and bikini bathing went on unabated last week. The curfew's chief effect on the diplomatic set was to move up cocktail parties from 7 to 5, and to make luncheons more popular than dinner parties. Diners stopped rushing out for a look when bombs went off, merely glanced at their watches so that they could see which bomb it was in the newspaper next morning. Daily papers printed want ads for apartments "in the calmest quarter of Beirut," as well as the broadcast times...
REACHING for superlatives in the hit song of his Broadway musical, Anything Goes, in 1934, Songster Cole Porter forged an unusual link between popular music and great art, wrote: "You're the top, you're the Louvre Museum." While France is considerably less than she was 24 years ago, the Louvre is still the top. Last January, over lunch in Manhattan with visiting Louvre Chief Curator Germain Bazin, TIME editors began laying the groundwork for a comprehensive report on the Louvre and its great collection, to be keyed to a two-volume study of the museum being published...
...board to suspend racial integration at Central High School until January, 1961. Reason: while the Negro students "in the Little Rock district have a constitutional right not to be excluded from any of the public schools on account of race," desegregation has simply "broken down under the pressure of popular opposition," and the community needs a breathing spell...
Larrazábal appeared to be developing a strategy of enthusiastic reticence. He was not actively seeking the nomination. But he was ready if the nation drafted him. The best way to nurture a draft was to hold the popularity of the masses. And at the moment the best way to be popular is to stay on good terms with Venezuela Communists, who claim 26,000 members and are riding the crest of the post-dictatorship leftward swing. Larrazábal, it seemed, intended to do just that. Said the admiral at his press conference: "Maybe I am naive...
Said a buyer: "The one truism of the dress business is that any design that requires slender hips will never be commercially popular...