Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caught up at first in the language or locutions of their new country. German-born Gisela Bolte, assigned to the New York bureau after working in Bonn, has discovered that "a word like hokey, which wasn't in use when I was here from 1968 to 1970, is popular now and others, such as dropout, are no longer common usage." Senior Correspondent James Bell, who joined TIME in 1942 and has served in 14 different bureaus, is also busy getting used to a linguistic shift although he has only moved from Atlanta to Boston. "Retuning the ear from Billy...
...those questioned approved of the way the President was handling his job, while only 8% did not (26% had no opinion). No matter that Americans are usually anxious to see the best in a new President.* Carter's obvious diligence, his eagerness to tackle every problem simultaneously, his popular support-the evidence all seemed to add up to an early box office success...
...previous elections, the Congress Party has always received between 40% and 46% of the popular vote, but maintained a parliamentary majority because the opposition was so badly split. This time the Janata Party and its allies are contesting 538 seats (out of 542), but in practically no constituency are two opposition-party candidates pitted against each other. Mrs. Gandhi's party has fielded 492 candidates and is relying on its erstwhile ally, the pro-Moscow Communist Party of India, to carry the banner in most of the other constituencies. Mrs. Gandhi is said to have been told...
...obvious questions after the Office of the Registrar released the list of the largest ten spring semester courses (actually 11 due to a tie) last week are ones like what makes a course like Humanities 9b, "Oral and Popular Literature," attract 667 people, twice as many as took it last year, or why did Natural Sciences 4, "Natural Selection and Behavioral Biology," lose 240 people from first semester? In short, what makes a course popular...
...problem is not, as a few literary purists suggest, an inherent lack of quality in any work that appeals to a mass audience. Popular fiction is an important art form, with its own distinctive rules and a few acknowledged masters whose works combine popular appeal with genuine literary flair. Nor does the fault lie with the tastes of the reading public, for it regularly receives the works of the masters--the LeCarres, the John D. MacDonalds--enthusiastically. Rather, the problem stems from the fact that the public can only buy what the publishers put in the bookstores--and American publishers...