Word: unpopularity
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Dominguin believes that bullfighting is neither a sport nor a business, but an art. He despises most of his fellow bullfighters, whom he regards as "commercial." Consequently, he is unpopular with them. He thinks of himself as a purist, an upholder of the classical style, as opposed to the current fashion which measures a bullfighter by bravery alone...
Married. Bertrand Russell, 80, British philosopher-author (Unpopular Essays, New Hopes for a Changing World), longtime champion of premarital sex and critic of modern marriage ("Most . . . would break up at middle age if it were not for economic considerations"); and Edith Finch, 52, onetime teacher at Bryn Mawr; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in London...
This type of frenzied misevaluation "discourages foreign service men from showing independent thought and from reporting trends abroad which might be very unpopular back home," Reischauer stated...
Engaged. Bertrand Russell, 80, Britain's famed philosophical trustbuster (Unpopular Essays, New Hopes for a Changing World) and thrice-married critic of modern manners & morals ("Most marriages would break up at middle age if it were not for economic considerations"); to Edith Finch, 52, onetime English teacher at Bryn Mawr College, now his secretary; in London...
...become one of the best-known cartoonists in the U.S. His two-panel cartoons are populated with such characters as "J. Pluvius Bigdome," stuffed-shirt, penny-pinching president of Bilgewater Beverage Co.; Henry Tremble-chin, Bigdome's browbeaten employee; Phootkiss, the office climber; Lushwell, a well-meaning but unpopular drunk who drags reluctant friends off to the El Clippo nightclub; and Gliblip, the unctuous sales manager. Typical Hatlo situation: browbeaten Mr. Tremblechin, nervously on his way to his first dinner at Bigdome's house, dropping his false teeth and smashing them on the pavement...