Word: unpopularly
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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius, which identifies Caravaggio as the first avant-garde artist. Our time, with its craving for rapid and unnerving change in the look of art, was bound to love Caravaggio. He was called an evil genius, an anti-Michelangelo; his work was compared to an overpeppered stew, and it became a favorite pretext for centrist finger wagging in the 17th century...
...states lost their cut of $2.3 billion in revenue-sharing funds in 1981, and many Governors and legislatures began passing tax increases at the time. More hikes followed when the recession further reduced local and state revenues. Democratic Governors, in particular, complain that if Reagan will not take the unpopular steps of raising federal taxes and freezing Social Security benefits, as well as holding down military spending, it is unfair to expect the states to raise money once again to replace the federal funds...
...because they doubted the courts would, or should, be open to them. The Federalists, the party of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, enacted in 1798 a Sedition Act that imposed criminal penalties for "false, scandalous and malicious writing" about the Government, Congress or the President. The law proved so unpopular that it contributed to the Federalists' defeat in 1800 and later disappearance; the statute expired in 1801, and has been regarded as unconstitutional...
...Geoffrey Howe of Britain, Foreign Minister Fernando Moran of Spain and Gibraltar's Chief Minister, Sir Joshua Hassan, met in Geneva last week and agreed to hold annual talks that will include the delicate question of sovereignty. But in Gibraltar, union with Spain still seems to be an unpopular idea. Says Joe Bossano, leader of the opposition Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party: "I believe we can follow a path toward self-government...
...loan money was used to fund an expanded government, but Mexico's new leaders are technocrats who lack the political savvy and personal forcefulness of their predecessors. Miguel de la Madrid, K-School grad and Mexico's current President, has grown increasingly unpopular as he has responded to the nation's financial straits by slashing social programs. The current budget cuts are the first for many years in Mexico, where presidents since the 1930s have spent to keep the myth of the just revolution alive and forestall social unrest...