Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon can't win" issue is undoubtedly of interest to the regular party workers, it is completely irrelevant to the voter trying to decide which man he wants to win. And, more significantly, this dilemma forces Rockefeller to concentrate on issues which emphasize his campaigning ability, his television sex appeal, rather than his political statesmanship. Furthermore, the positions he takes in such a situation tend to be chosen on crowd-pleasing content, for, campaigning to show "Nixon can't win," he himself cannot afford to take an unpopular stand...
...fact remains that, for all the team's success and for all the inherent appeal of the game, soccer continues to be played before a select few--coach Bruce Munro, substitutes, and the participants' girl friends and immediate families. For most others, the entire game is an anathema. Harvard men hesitate to inflict their dates with the discomfort of sitting through four 22-minute quarters of a largely incomprehensible contest, usually in the cold of a Saturday morning...
Actually, soccer should rate high at Harvard. A recent survey by Sports Illustrated placed the sport fifth on the list of "up" games--those that have gained social acceptance in collegiate circles--while football just edged into tenth position. Furthermore, there is a gentlemanly restraint that should appeal to the self-styled sophisticate. When the Crimson lost to Princeton near the end of the season, the defeat was the first after seven wins and three ties, and it seemed sure to knock the varsity out of the Ivy League race. Yet there were no tears, no recriminations, no vows...
...instigate repeal of the affidavit, Byse would appeal to the public and to the universities, not to the courts. He agreed with President Pusey that the NDEA, even with its flaws, represents a constructive change in the American attitude towards education...
Shown in France, the picture delighted the public, astonished the critics, won the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes. Part of its appeal, no doubt, derives from the timeless charm of the old legend itself, which Scenarist Jacques Viot has adapted simply and gracefully. Orpheus is a Rio streetcar conductor; Eurydice is a village girl who comes to the big city to visit her cousin and to escape from a sinister stranger who wants to kill her. They fall in love and go down to the city together to celebrate the carnival in the streets. There her enemy, who is Death...