Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major task, accomplished it, and found recognition. His technical skill, his enthusiasm for his material, and his narrative power, are combined in a poem which has had phenomenal and merited success. Mr. Robinson's 'Tristran' and Mr. Benet's 'John Brown's Body' have brought to good poetry unprecedented popular acclaim in this country--a fact which should be significant in our literary history...
...idealistic conception of a self-governing democracy to the south of us, has received one blow after another. Successful presidencies such as the Calles administration, have been consistently followed by periods of disorder, during which most of the patiently taught fundamentals of popular government have been totally forgotten in the usual scramble for personal self-elevation. Such constructive and enlightened presidencies as that of Calles, however, have been maintained primarily by force, and they would seem to justify their indefinite continuation as benevolent despotisms. Mexico has not proved herself ready for true democracy, and a reversion to what is ordinarily...
...begin on Aug. 4, 1914. If some trace the War no further than to an archducal assassination, then others might trace the Crash to a variety of such moments as that when Goldman Sachs terminated the syndicate on their Blue Ridge investment trust. Vital point is the undermining of popular confidence that ended in the crash...
...Everybody Happy? (Warner). One of the most popular acts of stage orchestras used to consist in the leader telling the audience that he was going to play a classical piece and a jazz piece and asking everybody to show by the way they clapped which one they liked best. A variation of that idea has been arranged for Ted Lewis in the form of some nonsense about an old Hungarian violinist who played symphonies for royal families and his son who played jazz. Elements of mother love, fatherly pride, wealth that can buy finery but not happiness, fail to depress...
...natural to attend anything popular-priced rather hesitantly, especially when the epithet is applied to no refined an object as the opera, but the work of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company, at the Arlington for two weeks, leaves absolutely no basis for this fear. A small theater and stage, simple settings, singers not yet widely known--these might be handicaps for such an organization; instead they are transformed into positive aids. The grandiose atmosphere that surrounds the Chicago Company's midwinter performances is lacking; in its place is an enthusiastic group of singers and a fully appreciative audience...