Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case to the Alumni and the Administration. Members of the foundation have stated that they do not wish to hurt the Program for Harvard College, either as a tactic or as a contingent result of their campaign. Yet even allowing that they may consider the urgency of their appeal more imperative than the success of the Program, their sincertiy about not wishing to hurt the Program is open to question when they solicit for their own fund drive...
...Painter Andre Derain, who, suing for her share of the "community of goods," had sequestered Derain's studio and denied him access to a painting he was still working on. As sometimes happens in France, popular feeling outweighed the rigidities of law. Last week a court of appeal in Orleans reversed the decision of the Court of Cassation, handed down a final verdict awarding Bonnard's property to his own heirs...
...laughing, cried: "Who owns all the people and all they own? Answer me!" But Obo-do was dragged off to jail and additionally charged with the murder of his wife. Last week, like any common criminal, Chief Obodo and four accomplices were hanged in Enugu prison after their appeal from the guilty verdict had been denied by the Privy Council of Eastern Nigeria. At least, that is what the villagers of Abakaliki have been told. None of them are prepared to believe that the majestic, awe-inspiring Chief Obodo is "properly dead" until his body is brought home from Enugu...
...psychiatrist but a general practitioner, Crete-born Dr. Bontzolakis. 51, divides abstractionists into two classes. By far the larger: the poseurs, attracted by snob appeal, laziness, money or mere lack of talent. These, he finds, are rarely neurotic. But about one-third of his patients are passionately sincere, and they have both emotional and physical symptoms...
...introduction to the catalogue, Historian Charles Coleman Sellers notes that Peale's paintings "are of our own time more truly than of his. They have a peculiarly modern appeal in their very personal motivation and in their use of realism as an escape from reality. That other painters regarded [still life] as fit only for school work or amateurs may have encouraged him to take it as his own, to develop it with his wonderful virtuosity and to find in it a little province of personal supremacy, of surprises and satisfactions, of no money value but of solace...