Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that time Neruda's poetry had become virtual proverb for most Chileans. The poet could attract 5,000 or more working people on a rainy night to hear him recite the verses of "Canto General," his paean to them, or "Spain in Our Hearts." During the Popular Unity government of Salvadore Allende, his verses were painted on thousands of walls throughout Chile. A spokesman for the left, Neruda always wrote for, and to, the people, all people. His poetry, and more recently his Memoirs, are Neruda's attempt to detail his apprenticeship to become the poet of his people...
Carter, however, is an affectionado of Putt-Putt golf, a souped-up version of miniature golf popular down South. David Lloyd, president of Putt-Putt Golf Courses of America, was recently quoted as saying, "Mr. Carter is a great friend of Putt-Putt. It will be a wonderful boost to have our game played by the President of the United States...
...recent popular song declares that "sweet sixteen has turned 31." Rock 'n' roll, too, has passed its prime, but The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll serves as a superbly detailed, carefully compiled "remembrance of things past...
Student Unrest. While overseas adventures are popular, the schools hope that the January courses can also further students' serious interests. At N.Y.U., for example, Professor Henry Mullish attracts about 150 "highly motivated" graduate students and fellow teachers for his five-day course on computer science. Since many nonscientific fields in which they work call for statistical analysis, Mullish attempts to teach them the rudiments of computer programming while dispelling their "innate distrust" of the machines. Says Mullish: "I win them over by teaching them a modicum of contempt for computers...
COMBAT. Though they have traditionally been popular in Hollywood, war movies were eclipsed for a decade or more by the divisive reality of the war in Viet Nam, seen live and in color every night on the evening news. Now, with the fall of Saigon a receding memory, war films are staging their own kind of blitzkrieg. Toral Tora! Tora!, the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, nearly ruined 20th Century-Fox when it was released in 1970, at the height of the Viet Nam War. Midway, on the other hand, which took unused footage from Tora...