Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manufacturers are pushing nearly every name plate they have into the field. Some, like the Oldsmobile Cutlass-the nation's most popular model this year-are not only being reduced in size and weight but also redesigned with boxy, hatchback-like profiles in order to retain interior passenger and cargo space. Oldsmobile will market the first mass-produced diesel models in U.S. auto history. Some lines will be scrapped altogether; Ford will drop its dated, slow-selling Comets and Mavericks and replace them with new compacts, the Fairmont and Zephyr, that will sport a lean European profile and rectangular...
...fear of many of sociobiology's opponents is that it will prove nothing but leave a heavy political impact anyway. Sahlins fears it may disappear as a science but go on and on in the popular culture...
...fact, sociobiologists believe, conflict?both in the family and with outsiders?is the essence of life. But they do not think that man is at the mercy of an irresistible aggressive instinct, as Lorenz (On Aggression) and Author Robert Ardrey (The Territorial Imperative) insisted in their popular books more than a decade ago. For sociobiologists the trick in becoming an evolutionary winner is to hit just the right level of aggression. Too little, and the organism may be muscled out by competitors. Too much, and it may die in battle without reproducing, or use up time and energy in fighting...
...only sperm, and promiscuity may pay off for him as a workable reproductive strategy. If he spreads his genes widely and refuses to nurture at all, he can still reasonably assume that some of his offspring will be likely to survive. Sociobiologists say this is why promiscuity is more popular among men, and why the urge to nest is stronger among women...
...would have been easy for Cole to fall into the role of dilettante, composing patter songs to amuse his intimates. Instead, as Alec Wilder observes in his classic treatise, American Popular Song, "the body of [Porter's] work shows clearly that he constantly sought to maintain a high level, not of social frippery, but of professional craftsmanship." Cole worked as hard as he played. Each morning he would sit down at the piano for three hours. When he went on a cruise he took-along with his tailored dinner jackets and crates of his favorite champagne-a piano organ...