Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Morrison: "You can put me down as last in any hating contest." Kennedy was unpopular in Louisiana, as he was in most of the Deep South. And because Morrison, although a lip-service segregationist himself, was unwilling to inveigh against Kennedy, he was a distinct underdog...
...same time, prosperity has made the national health insurance unpopular; status seekers are pained that the plan provides only ward hospitalization, restricts choice of doctors, and discourages prescribing such relatively nonessential medical delights as tranquilizers, of which Germans have become increasingly fond. "Why should I sit around all day in the waiting room of a second-rate doctor with all those grubby mineworkers or street cleaners or whatever they are?" says a pretty Bonn secretary. "I can afford better...
When the Union Jack was lowered over Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago last year, the joy that greeted these two new nations was mixed with doubts. Both had a proper, if sometimes unpopular, British upbringing. They both had rapidly growing populations, 15% to 25% unemployment, and a heavy dependence on outside capital. Though their problems remain, Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago seem to be finding their way with hardly a skip of a calypso beat...
...with the Chinese shows signs of widening, and if the signs are true, it will become militarily advantageous for the Soviets to make new peace overtures to the West," Kaysen said. "Also the economic pressures inside the Soviet Union are making an increasingly expensive arms race more and more unpopular...
...Ross would probably agree that no college anywhere should ban a speaker simply become he is unpopular--as Yale banned George Wallace, and many state universities ban Communists. The administration's responsibility is to keep "hands off." But those of us in student organizations who actually invite speakers should not fall into the sterile intellectualism of assuming that every speaker has a serious, intelligent view to present...