Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temper of the world has changed and left behind it the Victorian sensibilities which Kipling pleased, life as he painted it remains, and with it the appeal and pertinence of his wisdom. The compassion with which he tells how Gadsby Memsahib walked through the Valley of the Shadow, and the open-minded acceptance of the metem-psychosis of Charlie Mears, are good in a modern day of sceptical worldliness. Even the Prime Minister might get a better glimpse of the soul of Mother India through the enlightenment of Pagett, M.P. But that is another story...
...into the field must see that the study is not futile merely because it has not given a panacea for business ills; for the depression by making problems more complex and more acute is actually giving the field a greater appeal. They must see that economists are not primarily moneymakers and do not propose to find cure-alls, but rather hope to examine the economic structure and to analyze factors, controlling those which can be controlled and weighing those which cannot. The decrease of membership of the Economics department, by indicating the closer restriction of the field to these...
...give weight to his proposal, Mr. Roosevelt punctuated his address with ringing names drawn from the histories of both parties. Concluding that his was a plea, "not for a class control, but for a true concert of interest," Mr. Roosevelt brought the house to its feet by a dramatic appeal, "if that be treason, make the most...
...proof of a pudding is in the eating, and the fact that this course is overcrowded testifies to its strong appeal. One might imagine from reading your editorial that English 72 was devoted exclusively to the pedantic examination of minutiae, a method of approach with which the writer, for one, has no sympathy whatever. The truth about English 72 is that its head has brought all his forceful scholarship to bear upon such things, while retaining his own remarkable sense of values and proportion. What interests Mr. Lowes in these Romantics, after their mysterious genius, is their humanity...
...nineteenth century romanticism is of such great appeal both to men in and out of the field of English that it would be unfortunate if there were no single course to give the undergraduate a general and yet not superficial view of the period. To make two courses of English 72, one for undergraduates and the other for graduates, is the necessary solution...