Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar. Robin and Little John come upon Friar Tuck and Will Scarlett, who are hunting deer in the forest. Now Richard's brother John is King, and their old adversary, the sheriff, still rules in Nottingham. Will brings Robin and Little John up to date by singing a popular ballad about the putative exploits of the merry men in their pre-Crusades youth. "But, Will," Robin protests, pleased, "we never did any of those things." Then he asks about Marian...
Baffling Travelers. A chronicle in which explorer after explorer vanishes into the jungle necessarily lacks the grand narrative sweep of Alan Moorehead's The White Nile and The Blue Nile. But Sanche de Gramont, an able journalist and popular historian (The French: Portrait of a People), has written a book, covering roughly the years 1790 to the present, with its own ironic fascination. At the outset, as was true of the Nile, no European knew the source of the Niger (in the mountains about 200 miles east of Sierra Leone). Its destination was also unknown. There were even disputes...
Americans like their popular music to rock and roll, but Jamaicans take their pop songs more seriously. Most of the island's musicians are Rastafarians, members of a sect that believes Jamaica's culture should reflect its people's African roots. What they sing and play is called reggae music-the name comes from the title of a 1968 hit-whose lyrics treat political tensions, social grievances and "black roots" culture. Because an unpopular law or politician can become the subject of a popular song, reggae is a political force that is felt at the government...
...most popular reggae performer in both Jamaica and the U.S. is Bob Marley, 30, a dreadlocked singer who dispenses a back-to-the-roots philosophy with electric-rock intensity. A lean, imperious Rasta, Marley is deeply distrustful of politics. "Never make a politician grant you a favor, they will always want to control you forever," he sings in the song Revolution. The current hit single in Jamaica is his song about the island's upcoming parliamentary campaign. Its title: Rat Race...
Hodgins said the report documents a four-year trend among Business School graduates. He said one reason why large companies may be more popular is that "smaller corporations tend to pull in their horns in an economic downturn," while larger companies have a better chance of surviving...