Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Adenauer has given Germany the most stable government of any large nation in Europe. Most of the time he ruled by sheer force of character, ignoring hostile votes, whittling, down men whom he could not overawe, driving where he could not lead. He has the courage to be unpopular...
...Magic Mountain) Mann talked about writing. "The German language is an organ," he said, "but if I could be born again I would choose English. It opens much greater possibilities. Apart from Goethe and the other classics, the German language is not popular. It is not indecent to be unpopular, but this is the fact." How did he rate authors like Faulkner and Hemingway with the big names of earlier generations? "There is a colossal difference in size. Think of the forest of great authors we had in the last century . . . Measured by such standards, the authors of today become...
...questioned the value of the United Nations, delimited as it was by the veto, its concept based solely on "peace and security," not on "law and justice." He took the unpopular position, as so many of his positions were, of denouncing the Nürnberg trials, which "violate the fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute ... In these trials we have accepted the Russian idea of the purpose of trials-government policy and not justice...
Joseph Brown Matthews began his career about as far away as possible from the Washington limelight-as a Methodist missionary in Java. He was a brilliant linguist, but his sympathy for Indonesian nationalists made him unpopular with the islands' Dutch masters as well as executives of his own mission. Back in the U.S., he studied at several seminaries, then joined the faculty of Scarritt, a training college for Methodist church workers in Nashville, Tenn. He was forced to leave because of his liberal views. Recalls Hutchinson: there was a "furor over an interracial party held in his home...
Backed by his ambitious and unpopular vice president, Clark Frasier, Geographer Freeman ordered his professors around as they had never been ordered around before. A gruff, stubborn man, he refused to listen to their complaints, once bluntly told them to stop flunking students lest enrollment drop. As the months passed, professors began to seethe. But it was not until they hit upon the strange case of the athletic director's unearned M.Ed, that they openly revolted...