Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That has been especially so in the past two decades, as this week's cover story on new American manners points out. One popular up-to-date guidebook to shifts in manners since World War II, and particularly since the sexual revolution of the '60s, is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, which has just been revised by former White House Social Secretary Letitia Baldrige. To prepare the cover story, Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison interviewed Baldrige and found her "warm, graceful and witty, with manners so good you don't notice them." The cover assignment, however...
Lord of The Rings, perhaps more than any other popular work, exists not so much in print as in the imaginations of its readers. Tolkien's world is his world, with its own laws, peoples, history, and time...
...spirit's indomitability, her triumph over what appear to be terminal leg cramps on opening night of her first starring part in a ballet? Can another big crash-bang score by Bill Conti once again drown out a multitude of dramatic sins and carry this picture to the popular heights achieved by Director Avildsen's most recent work, the ineffable Rocky...
...string quartets alone) and variety (duos for two, nonets for nine). The Juilliard String Quartet plays 600 works from three centuries. Other groups, like the Theater Chamber Players and the 20th Century Consort, both in Washington, D.C., focus heavily on contemporary works. Says Sergiu Luca, founder of the popular Chamber Music Northwest series in Portland, Ore.: "We are small enough to be easily marketed, easily paid for, and varied enough to attract a wide range of listeners. So we are a winner...
...Americanism. In 1976, more than 10,000 spectators and 2,000 participants turned out for a Rockwell parade during the Bicentennial in Stockbridge, where he lived with his third wife Molly Punderson; for an hour and a half, float after float passed by, each bearing tableaux representing his most popular illustrations?the Four Freedoms, the Boy Scouts, the doctor solemnly examining a girl's broken doll, the returning G.I. Corny, certainly; but no American artist had ever received such an affecting tribute. By then Rockwell had outlived his subject matter, a fact that his fundamental decency did not permit...