Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that some people laugh out loud at the thought of President Robert Taft is due, to a large degree, to Bob Taft himself. Heretofore, the nation has had only dim and somewhat prejudiced glimpses of him. In the days before Pearl Harbor he was an unpopular isolationist. He has certain rough edges, a twangy voice, and is impatient of nonsense. He is.no orator. Generally he is regarded as a cold fish, a reactionary, an enemy of Henry Wallace's Common...
...international scene will force voters on the large scale to shy from groups with Communist backing. This is the pure pragmatic approach. It skirts the ethics and polities involved in current affairs and comes up with the only clear truth in a foggy picture--that Communists are unpopular in this country. Thus, if the organization is young (the AVC), or anxious to win votes in a real national election (the fledgling Americans for Democratic Action), the program has been: face the Reds, isolate them, eliminate them...
...other parties, well aware that unpopular economic measures were surgically necessary to save France, might be glad to see courageous old Blum take the responsibility...
...between high sales and highbrows was wider than ever-a difference due, in large part, to the fact that the popular writers seemed to dramatize without thinking, and the unpopular writers to think without dramatizing. Nearest U.S. approach to a good combination of thought and drama was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, a novel about the Huey Long regime. Among the best of the rest: Conrad Richter's The Fields, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Christina Stead's Letty Fox, Sholem Asch's East River, Jerome Weidman...
Masaryk's statement that Czechoslovakia's "swing to the left" had run itself out was endorsed by Benes. The nation is "against Communism" he said, adding that some "rotten democracies" are equally unpopular. "Our policy is to take the best from everything we see around us' and has enabled Czechoslovakia to combine individual liberty with a planned economy and assure everyone economic and social freedom, he stated...