When Mr. Obama invokes the spirit of Mr. Reagan, it is to argue that the Republican Party of Mr. Romney has drifted far away from its popular roots.
Shorter's composition "The Big Push," a loping, bluesy bounce, suggests the popular roots of jazz, which were being torn up by rock.
Without deep popular roots, the argument that family income is crucial to children's lives has not proved to be resilient in the face of those who caricature relative poverty as a statistical construct.
In touring the Alsace countryside on horseback, Goethe became aware of the popular roots of his native language at the same time as he partly under the influence of the contemporary English literature of sentimentalism, exemplified by Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey (1768)—began to feel the emotional appeal of landscape.
In the 1970s he achieved notoriety with a string of polemical Shakespeare productions – The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Othello, Hamlet – purporting to return the Bard to his popular roots and intended to scandalise the Abonnenten, the ageing, middlebrow season-ticket-holders whose tastes he felt hamstrung the repertoire.
It was the mid-1980's, and the Zanes brothers were fronting the Del Fuegos, a cultishly popular roots-rock outfit started by Dan Zanes that briefly knocked at the door of stardom until Warren Zanes left the band and the group eventually fell apart.
The most popular rooting medium is a mix of garden soil, peat moss, perlite, turface, vermiculite, and hardwood or pine bark.
There are plans available that will make cleanings, fillings, crowns, and the ever-popular root canal (which can cost around $1,500 to the uninsured) much more affordable, all for way less than you pay for that daily cup of coffee.
REBECCA MEAD: "About as popular as root canal…" For those Americans who can actually afford root canal, that is.
