Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disagree with Lance Morrow's statement, "Lindbergh is more an item of receding Americana than a hero who engages the popular imagination" [May 23]. To me, Lindbergh is still very much a hero and always will...
Cordials, too, are increasingly popular. Sales of Seagram's Leroux liqueurs in 50 flavors are growing at a rate of 7%. The company's imported labels -Vandermint, Sabra-are also doing nicely. Hiram Walker, one of the largest sellers of liqueurs in the U.S., came out last year with its 30th flavor-Swiss chocolate almond. A subsidiary of Jack Daniel Distillery markets 27 flavors of Bols liqueurs; National Distillers' De Kuyper collection has 39 flavors...
Amphetamines or "speed," popular and widespread during reading and exam periods. Amphetamines go by many names from "dexies" to "beauties" to "speckled birds." They are addictive for constant pill-poppers and brutal on the heart and central nervous system, as are most hard drugs...
...hoped to deal with the war when he became President? Said he: "The most popular position to take on Viet Nam ... was to bug out and blame it on Johnson and Kennedy." But he did not take this easy way because "Kennedy and Johnson were right in going into Viet Nam." Nixon's only regret about his own tactics, he said, was that "I didn't act stronger sooner." Had the U.S. employed saturation bombing of civilian centers in Southeast Asia, he went on, the war would have ended "in a tragic way, but much, much sooner...
...partners in clearing and planting the New World, were turned by industrialization and commerce into homemakers and clotheshorses. Shunted to the sidelines, these women and the liberal clergy sought power as guardians of art, literature and refinement. America's sentimental education began. Feeling became more prized than thinking. Popular literature grew trashier at the same time that magazine and book publishing was burgeoning. Narcissism flourished, and with it a greater appetite for the products and kitsch of popular culture...