Word: popular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Kerrigan, who barely sneaked by two years ago, rolled to victory this month in the school committee race, politicking has brought him the chairmanship, and the disclosure of his ties with a Dorchester school repairs contractor got him into the headlines. Thievery, or the hint of it, is popular in a city that once elected a mayor after he had served a jail sentence for embezzlement of city funds. One could turn fraud into election if he attached a Robin Hood charisma to it. In the best James Michael Curley tradition. Kerrigan won in a landslide...
...politician, he went on to explain, the issue was dangerous. If they voted to end the war, they would be popular for a while. But within a short time the reaction to losing the war would undermine their initial victory, and probably destroy them...
...controversey over Soc Rel 149. "Radical Perspectives in Social Change." Stauder split the Soc Rel Department over the issues of student sectionmen and course curriculum. With more than 700 students enrolled, his course was one of the most popular last spring. When he felt the course would be compromised this year (by not allowing student sectionmen, for instance). Stauder withdrew his course from the catalog. The same idealism typified his behavior in the bust of University Hall and its aftermath...
...talk of a coup. The speculation started when South Vietnamese Senator Tran Van Don invited some 300 Vietnamese to his home in Saigon's Cholon section to toast the anniversary of the 1963 overthrow of the Diem regime. Among the guests was General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, a popular leader of the 1963 plot and an old Thieu rival, who is regarded as the possible leader of a coalition government. Asked about his plans, he is quoted as replying: "You will see. I am ready to do anything to serve the cause of unity among my people...
...National Museum in Helsinki-Meister Francke's earliest known work. Its eight richly painted panels sum up the characteristic ambiguities of Meister Francke's style. In The Flagellation of St. Barbara, the brutal, peasant faces and awkward, potbellied figures of Barbara's tormentors foreshadow the popular style of Bruegel or Bosch-though neither painter had been born when they were painted. By contrast, nothing could be more courtly than the boneless sinuosity of Barbara's figure, the vapid sweetness of her untroubled expression or the richly brocaded gowns and hierarchic formality of the aristocratic spectators...