Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Applied to university teaching, Dr. Count's appeal has a much wider application. A Harvard student should have sufficient discretion to judge the comparative values of the different theories presented him. It is safe for Professor Babbitt to expound the wonders of Humanism as long as Professor Lowes continues to defend the Romantics. The student will progress further towards forming a philosophy of his own in this way, than by listening to any one man, no matter how open-minded. But in a small college this plan presents its dangers. There, it is too expedient for an instructor to share...
...coming to New England, in spite of its broadening influence. When they are through with Washington they will be too completely tired and spent. If they came they would have but little time. Intellectual leadership seems to have passed from Yankee hands when Dartmouth, Yale, and Harvard have no appeal to these Dianas of the West...
...likewise a revelation to know that Wagner has popularized "a longing for a higher life, coupled with a tremendously powerful appeal to the vigor of bodily movement", to which last current society music is also dedicated. No comparison is possible between the bombastic "An American in Paris" and an opera so highly emotional as "Tristan and Isolde...
...principle role in "Handy Man", a thoroughly enjoyable comedy of his own creation now playing at the Copley Theatre. Mr. Powers' charm results chiefly from his native naturalness and simplicity. One cannot help feeling that he is the same off the stage as on it; therein lies his appeal...
...annoying part of the election is the modest way in which it is held. There is no flair, no life, no appeal to the imagination. Suppose it were handled by a genius with a sense of the theatrical values of the contest, who would assure everyone a good time. He would hire cars with amplifiers to cruise the streets of Cambridge blaring the virtues of the candidates beneath the Georgian walls. The contestants, dressed in the height of fashion, blazing in House colors, hold banquets, giving away cigars, speeches, and spreading their ineffable personalities. Good spirits should not be forgotten...