Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refused. But there was still a real fear that military officers concerned about the danger to the Shah's survival might yet attempt to shore up his power by staging a coup. In hopes of placating both the military and the opposition, Bakhtiar named General Feridun Jam, a popular officer who has had differences with the Shah, as Minister of Defense...
Translation: The eternal prognosticating game has just finished going berserk again. It does so at every turn of the year. The result, as the honest-to-God gleanings from the popular press above and below suggest, is that 1979 stands revealed in marvelous detail. Even before the old year has been digested, the new can thus be consumed. A few of the prophecies-who knows?-may even tell something of the future. In any event, the reveling in revelations tells a good deal about Americans...
...Popular Acclaim...
...avoid the pressure of seeing other students apparently getting their work done, one person said he slept all day and studied all night with a mid-evening pinball-break at 1 a.m. Pinball ranks as such a popular way to ease the eyes and mind that Quincy House has rented an extra machine for the duration...
Goodall's conducting is in the expansive, slow-paced tradition of men like Hans Knappertsbusch. He has a touch for bringing out the counterpoint in Wagner's score, particularly in the popular orchestral segments like "Siegfried's Rhine Journey"; but often it's hard to tell just what he's doing with his orchestra, because the recording is so muddy...