Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure of the Communist party is that its political propaganda is little adapted to the development of strong and indigenous parties in the countries of Central and Western Europe. The chief thesis of its propaganda is the defense of Russia against capitalism. This is bound to have small appeal in Western Europe, for the laboring classes there, as in the United States, are primarily interested in more immediate gains, such as higher wages, better working conditions, and unemployment insurance. Until the Communist party shows more skill in and plays more attention to devising a German program for German consumption...
...Shahn believes strongly in the importance of subject matter in painting and the universality of appeal, only made possible by an easy understanding of the subject. This idea is a new departure from the increasingly common abstraction of modern art. Mr. Shahn takes the reportorial rather than the editorial point of view in his painting...
...attributes the success of "The Green Pastures" to the moral influence, the human appeal, and the high quality of the directing and acting. "I am no playwright," Richard Harrison concluded, "but I can tell a good play, when I see it, and I have seen many plays ruined by inadequate acting. No play is foolproof all the way through, or actor proof...
...will cast a protest vote for Norman Thomas is not negligible in view of the fact that the popular votes may gather in such a way as to determine the election. Considering the fact that they are the minority party, it is the floating vote that the Democrats must appeal to and corral if they expect to win the election."Dr. E. P. HERRING, Instructor in Government, who concedes Roosevelt more than an ever chance in the Presidential Election...
Well printed and made up, Babies was aimed with care and force at all persons who "ooh" and "ah" over small children. The pictures were well chosen for cuddle and dandle appeal. There were unknown babies (but no pickaninnies), royal babies (Baroness de Bardossy of Hungary), socialite babies (Peter & Palmer Dixon of Southampton, L. I.), champion babies (Gillingham F. Landis, onetime winner of the Ocean City, N. J. baby parade). There was no mention of deceased baby-of-the- year Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. or unborn baby-of-next-year Smith Holman Reynolds. Promised for the next issue...