Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thursdays should be just as appealing as those meeting on Mondays and Wednesdays. They are not, though. For courses meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays must also meet on Saturdays, and there is something about a Saturday, especially in the fall, that makes any class scheduled for that morning remarkably unpopular. Some instructors have already recognized this academic fact of life, and have responded admirably by canceling some or all of their Saturday classes...
...certain quarters the United States Constitution, venerable as it is, seems unpopular these days. The United States Supreme Court, venerable as it is, does, too. In "Government 124," meeting in Long fellow Alumnae Hall, Associate Professor McCloskey puts the two reprobates together to see what effect they've had on each other through the years. His course on American Constitutional Development traces the interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, paying special attention to decisions of the post-World...
...Hogarth's age was a smallish city, as statistics go now. It was a place where the procession to the pillory of a popular prostitute (like Moll Hervey, who was set up at the Blackamoor's Head and Sadler's Arms in Hedge Lane) or an unpopular madam (like Mother Needham of Park Place, St. James's) might bring out a bigger crowd than a coronation. Londoners were a people who had yet to regard understatement as a virtue or overdrinking as a vice...
COLOMBIA Censorship as Usual One of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's proudest acts, soon after he came to power two years ago, was to relax the strict press controls administered by his unpopular predecessor, dictatorial President Laureano Gomez. On one occasion, in the presence of a band of visiting foreign newsmen, Rojas Pinilla turned to the government's chief censor with a grin and forthwith abolished all censorship of outgoing news cables. But last week, no longer so proud, no longer so sure of himself, President Rojas cracked down on the press again...
...airstrip, he jumped down from the plane, too impatient to wait until the ramp was shoved into place. In his first week, he fired nine of the protectorate's top French officials, "for essentially psychological reasons"; they were competent, he explained, but identified with the old, unpopular order. To Moroccan cheers, he declared a general amnesty for Bastille Day, freeing 77 political prisoners and closing the internment camp where Moroccan nationalists had been held. This, he said, was only a beginning. "Spirits must be calmed in order to institute a constructive policy," he explained, and urged Moroccans to join...