Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provisional College group advocating strong U.S. action in Hungary will sponsor a kick-off rally in Boston Sunday night to mobilize nation-wide student support for its interventionist appeal...
...Sunday rally, Sheehan said, is designed to launch a national appeal for the kind of strong action advocated earlier this week in a petition circulated by the Committee for a Free Hungary. The petition, reportedly signed by 500 people including two Housemasters, calls on the U.S. to sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and refuse to recognize the Kadar government, if U.N. action proves ineffective...
...editing emphasize the drama of bullfighting a little unnecessarily, Bullfight is still well worth seeing. The shorts are not. One includes Spanish dances by Antonio and Rosario which are difficult to watch owing to the fact that the sets don't keep still. The other, which may appeal to Cambridge's armchair revolutionaries and bomb-throwers, includes a tornado, several hurricanes, many atom bombs, an H-bomb, and Krakatoa. It's name is Man vs. Nature...
Imperative Emotion. But for Sullivan, "function" was not bare-boned utilitarianism. Once the problem is analyzed, he insisted, "We must heed the imperative voice of emotion." This meant exalting the loftiness of the building as "the very open organ-tone of its appeal." For Sullivan, the organ-tone required its grace notes as well: the wrought-iron and terracotta decoration he lavished on his buildings, inside and out (opposite...
...critical crowd had capitulated. The customary cliches about musical battles did not apply; she did not "sing like an angel." and she did not "sing her way into the audience's heart." She sang if anything like a fascinating demon, and hers was a far more turbulent appeal than a mere sentimental coaxing of the heart. She pierced listeners with the most exciting operatic voice, the most compelling operatic presence, of her generation...