Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most popular subject of the pundits' presidential speculations is California Gov. Jerry Brown. Although a latecomer to the 1976 contest for the Democratic nomination, Brown dealt the Carter candidacy some stunning, if ultimately not mortal blows by beating Carter in the last six primaries in which they ran head to head. Esquire's national affairs editor Richard Reeves, who wrote one of the earliest profiles of Brown back in 1975 in which he characterized him as "the most interesting politician in the U.S..," has a long piece on Brown in last month's issue. Reeves argues that a Brown candidacy...
Reforms implemented during the Popular Unity government, which democraticized university policy and increased working class enrollment, have been abolished, Kirberg said...
...impossible to determine whether the black majority will accept the agreement, because Smith's government has never permitted free elections or any other realistic expression of black opinion. United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young has aptly criticized the settlement, noting that a settlement without the Popular Front will probably set black against black, eventually outweighing any possible benefits. Furthermore, the Smith plan does not meet the standards of the Anglo-American proposal hammered out last year...
...SICKNESS OF SOCIETY can be measured by the corruption of its words. If what is written is commercially compromised, pedestrian, pretentiously avant-garde, sensational, falsely "objective," full of prurient excitements, or given to half-truths in its ambitious and professional urge to suit popular taste, then the vigor and sanity of a people's intellectual life is indicted. No man or woman, still less a nation of millions, can escape the revealing honesty of personal utterance. So America, a land more than any other of printed words and raised voices, speaks a persistent, accusing dialogue with itself at every newsstand...
...press's past partisanship in its worst aspects--sensationalism and news demagoguery--but fundamentally this was reflective of a healthy, democratic impulse. In any case, yellow journalism has not left us--it has only gone underground, and is handled more subtly. In short, though possessing immense power and unprecedented popular diffusion, the press is losing its healthy diversity, its latitude, its freedom of expression in the truest sense of the phrase...