Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still has its limits. One can always allow politicians their endless pursuits; many are harmless, and it's simple enough to ignore them as they make their way to the electoral junkheap. But for political writers one faces a different matter. Literature, even such a frequently-derided form as popular political fiction, is an art--and any pattern of mindless repetition, of going through the motions for their own sake, is bound to do violence to the art, to turn it into a game where some people lose out. Contemporary political fiction suffers from this affliction: many American writers have...
...Hicks, the anti-busing Boston city councillor, led a float with signs declaring: "Hicks says South Boston is MY Roots," and "Southie is worth fighting for." Her group, ironically identifying itself as South Boston's Marshall's Youth Activities, was followed by a sound truck blurting the locally popular tune "Southie, My Home Town." Boston Mayor Kevin White did not march, but Gov. Michael Dukakis did, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 never showed despite his announced intention to participate. He is probably lucky he stayed away--bars, shop windows and lapels bore little good will for the man whose...
...disproportionate number of the dead were members of the literary and professional elite of Bucharest-the "Paris of eastern Europe," which in Aikman's words "now resembles the movie set of Earthquake." Poetess Veronica Porumbacu, popular Writer Alexandru Ivasiuc, Singer Doina Badea-all had perished, along with a host of privileged bureaucrats, scientists and educators who could afford fashionable apartments in the 32 tall buildings flattened in the heart of the city. At the city morgue hundreds of bodies lay in plastic sacks for long lines of friends and relatives to try to identify. "Is Caragiu there?" asked...
Released from jail early in 1935, Chiang Ch'ing resumed her acting career, gaining some fame for her portrayal of Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House and then appearing in several popular films. In 1937, however, her career as an actress came to an end. At the time, Japan began its full-scale invasion of China. The Communists' Red Army had just completed its epic Long March from the Southeast to its new headquarters at Yenan in remote northern Shensi province...
...fall's battle was Gene McCarthy, whose campaign began and ended as no more than a symbol. Perhaps Gene thought he could win. Perhaps he really thought, as his campaign manager once predicted, that he could win the big urban states and so take the electoral vote without the popular. Perhaps he really believed he could win states like Illionois without winning a single Congressional district--by running a very strong second to Daley-backed Carter in Chicago and then running an equally strong second to Ford in rural Illinois...