Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington Governor Daniel Evans, 50, could bring some of the Reagan Far West popularity and non-Washington image to the ticket. Illinois Congressman John Anderson, 54, a moderate, is popular in the House and Midwest. U.N. Ambassador and former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, 59, is an able Ford friend and confidant who is also highly popular with moderates, intellectuals and Easterners; but his name evokes memories of the bitter 1964 Republican Convention, when he made a late and abortive effort to block Barry Goldwater's nomination...
...More like a popular novel," she said dreamily, her head resting against his cheek. "The hero is on an important mission for his country. He is warned by the girl. They are attracted to one another, but duty calls him home, and they never see each other again...
...irony of this passage is Spiro Agnew's implied claim that he's writing a novel that is more than just popular fiction. Through his most intelligent, honest, noble characters he is trying to say that the situation he has created rises above the mundane, ordinary plot concoctions of pop novels. If the language doesn't clue you in, that fact that Zack and Amiri fall deeply and irrevocably in love in no time flat, and that this passage is an example of their wittiest repartee should tell you that Agnew's implied claim isn't quite true...
...plots in The Canfield Decision and The Company are stellar examples of the key to popular success. They're simple, sensational, they contain little moral complexity and the narrative is one easy, continuous flow...
...saying the U.S. should give Israel nuclear weapons. This posture threatens to ruin the latest round of SALT talks; nevertheless, Canfield won't follow lame-duck Hurly's orders to lay off the Israel stuff. The press--which under the appellation of 'Operation Torchlight' is secretly conspiring to boost popular support for Israel--is backing Canfield all the way. Meanwhile, a network of spies and terrorists are surreptitiously acting to destroy detente by setting the entire mass communications industry on an all-out campaign supporting nuclear arms shipments to Israel...