Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second phase, if it got that far, would presumably consist of a Russian attempt to "unpack the package" by throwing out a series of isolated counterproposals, each designed to catch the fancy of one of the Western powers and to horrify the others. (Example: an appeal for a mutual reduction of armed forces in central Europe, which would hold out to Britain the prospect of dismantling her costly Army of the Rhine, but would strike France and West Germany as the forerunner to U.S. military withdrawal from Western Europe.) Aware of the West's well-publicized failure to formulate...
MASTERPIECES of art are matter and spirit fused; thus they can have particular appeal to religious men. The Popes of Rome especially have been lovers of art, and in Renaissance times their power as temporal princes made it possible to amass art treasure on a grand scale. On public view at the Vatican, that treasure has become one of Rome's crowning glories...
...Island, and seven suburban counties) grew 50% to 1,558,328; the number of auxiliary bishops had risen from one to nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through his annual fund appeal for Catholic Charities. Born in Whitman, Mass., moonfaced, articulate Frank Spellman ran errands for his father's grocery, played sandlot baseball, boxed in a village barn, became an altar boy at the local church. After graduating from Fordham University ('11), he studied for the priesthood at Rome...
...even more notable triumph was Slonimsky's temporary resurrection of English Opera Composer Edward Maryon (The Prodigal Son, The Cycle of Life), who was believed by his own publishers to be dead until Slonimsky, after a futile appeal to Scotland Yard, discovered him alive in London (when he died in 1954, 87-year-old Composer Maryon left Slonimsky all his manuscripts). On the other hand, Slonimsky has suffered his setbacks: no amount of sleuthing has ever revealed the official birth dates of Antonio Vivaldi or Enrico Caruso; no fewer than 13 Enrico Carusos were born in Naples...
...hours of fine acting, social criticism interwoven with pathos and sentimental memories of adolescence, Rebel Without a Cause is a movie to be seen by everyone. And, even without the mystical appeal of James Dean, there should be those who, out of sheer curiosity will want to see the movie whose title it is the cross of our generation to bear...