Word: unpopularity
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...allegiance of a hard core of Labor intellectuals who are fed up with the political opportunism of the Wilson era and admire Jenkins' courage. He also has considerable appeal among the broader liberal community outside the party. In the early 1970s, when the Common Market was most unpopular, Jenkins risked a promising career by his unflinching advocacy of Britain's joining Europe...
...issue to get out of a tight situation. British entry into the Common Market was the prime example. Wilson was for it when he was Prime Minister in 1969, then vigorously opposed it two years later when he was out of office and polls showed Market membership to be unpopular, then reversed himself again in 1975. But his deft handling that year of the referents dum ratifying Market membership ended a long, divisive domestic debate on Britain's link to Europe...
Derain's The Turning Road, L'Estaque, 1906. Luxe is a clumsily tender Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light. The painting is drenched in idealized wistfulness, even to the title, taken from Baudelaire's L 'Invitation au voyage: "There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, calm and sensuous pleasure." No effort can restore its lost shock value, and this, in a different way, is true of the Derain as well. Today we luxuriate in its weighty design and audacious color...
...increased percentage of graduating seniors coming from unpopular River Houses explains the increase in the number of students receiving low River House choices, Collier said...
...sect that believes Jamaica's culture should reflect its people's African roots. What they sing and play is called reggae music-the name comes from the title of a 1968 hit-whose lyrics treat political tensions, social grievances and "black roots" culture. Because an unpopular law or politician can become the subject of a popular song, reggae is a political force that is felt at the government's highest level...