Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third reason Moffitt offers is that Letelier was one of the principal movers in getting a dialogue-in-exile going with the Christian Democrats following the military coup that overthrew the Allende government. Letelier apparently united the Christian Democrats and the remnants of the Popular Unity Party to draw up concrete plans for a transitional government in Chile. Moffitt claims the Christian Democrats trusted Letelier because he was a graduate of the military academy in Chile, a lawyer at the Inter-American Development Bank, and "he was never identified with the far left of the Socialist Party...
...example, are very, very well thought of by the undergraduate majors. Then you measure that against English, Economics, Government, History and so on, the warhorse fields...You finally have a very, very uneven balance which can't be totally rectified by having somewhat larger staffs in the more popular department...
...possible to approach the subject of the Holocaust with all kinds of metaphysical pretensions. The producers of Holocaust, knowing their medium, audience and tremendous potential for popular influence, avoided the deep mystifications that attend most theories about the aesthetics of atrocity. The philosopher T.W. Adorno once claimed that to write poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric. If those who made Holocaust had taken that warning seriously-it amounts to an injunction to silence-they would hardly have dared anything as vulgar as a TV show. But in telling the story as soap opera enlarged to historic proportions, the producers never truly...
...This year the number is up to 234 Americans on 24 teams, a jump of almost 30% over last season. American players now make up 48% of the league's rosters-an astonishing spurt of growth and a solid indication of how firmly the world's most popular sport has caught on in America...
...most Americans, Indian music is one of those fads that went out with the '60s. It conjures up images of burning incense, Sri Chinmoy and vegetarian snack bars. Most Americans' exposure to it is through Western popular musicians...