Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faces in the crowd at the conference were an interesting collection of veterans of popular movements and campus activists who will someday be veterans too, of trade unionists for Kennedy and members of the Spartacus Youth League thrown out of the hotel for running a literature table without permission. The Citizens Party was there. So was Public Interest Research Group, the People's Business Commission, the Coalition for a New Military and Foreign Policy, Rural America and the United States Student Association. The Crimson talked to many people at the conference. Below are interviews with two of them...
Whether the specific problem under discussion was the energy crisis (a popular topic), union rights, inflation, unemployment, housing, or health care--or the federal government's impotence in dealing with the problem--the preferred solution turned out to be giving the "power to the people" and taking it away from the huge corporations. "It is time for us to send a message," urged Robert Georgine, the nominally conservative union leader, "to the corporations that are threatening our democratic institutions...
OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES the popularity of reggae music has expanded beyond the borders of politically torn Jamaica. Even at Harvard, nearly 20,000 persons turned out for a benefit concert highlighting Bob Marley and the Wailers at Soldiers Field stadium last summer. A new album released this month by Marley, the prince of reggae, shows why the music has become so popular. Marley's voice has never been stronger, his message more poignant or his instrumentation more subtle and complex...
Marley's great popularity makes suspect his authenticity as a revolutionary. Yet he continues to be the most popular and respected songwriter among black Jamaicans as well as members of industrialized nations. The third cut, "One Drop" shows why Marley has an attraction that slices through age, class and culture. It is a sweet, simple, pretty song about faith and goodness...
Carter's low popular standing has brought on one of those self-conscious self-examinations that the press constantly undergoes: Seeing Carter's troubles, has the press deliberately built up Ted Kennedy? To such an accusation from a Washington Post reader, the paper's ombudsman, Charles B. Seib, pleads not guilty...