Word: unpopularity
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...Roger Bannister, are all factors which in the last few years have combined to bolster that waning confidence. Princess Margaret will start no revolution whatever she may do, but things are now so far advanced that if, in the end, she gives up Townsend, the outcome will be highly unpopular with many Britons, an unpopularity essentially derived not from the feeling that stuffiness has conquered love, but from the conviction that her choice was not a free...
Another problem is the relative effect of televising popular and unpopular games. The HAA is not willing to say whether next year's Yale game will be televised. Certainly with the game being played at Soldiers Field, the possibility would be extremely attractive. Unlike this year's Yale Bown game, next year's game is virtually assured of being a sell-out, with or without...
...Thursdays should be just as appealing as those meeting on Mondays and Wednesdays. They are not, though. For courses meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays must also meet on Saturdays, and there is something about a Saturday, especially in the fall, that makes any class scheduled for that morning remarkably unpopular. Some instructors have already recognized this academic fact of life, and have responded admirably by canceling some or all of their Saturday classes...
...certain quarters the United States Constitution, venerable as it is, seems unpopular these days. The United States Supreme Court, venerable as it is, does, too. In "Government 124," meeting in Long fellow Alumnae Hall, Associate Professor McCloskey puts the two reprobates together to see what effect they've had on each other through the years. His course on American Constitutional Development traces the interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, paying special attention to decisions of the post-World...
...Hogarth's age was a smallish city, as statistics go now. It was a place where the procession to the pillory of a popular prostitute (like Moll Hervey, who was set up at the Blackamoor's Head and Sadler's Arms in Hedge Lane) or an unpopular madam (like Mother Needham of Park Place, St. James's) might bring out a bigger crowd than a coronation. Londoners were a people who had yet to regard understatement as a virtue or overdrinking as a vice...