Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury bonds for bail and walked jauntily out (see cut). They were old (67), ailing William Z. Foster, a radical for almost 50 years, thrice the C.P.'s presidential candidate, now its chairman; shrewd, greying Eugene Dennis, C.P. general secretary, already on bond awaiting appeal of his one-year sentence for contempt of Congress (TIME, July 7, 1947); tall, Harvard-trained Benjamin J. Davis, New York City's only Negro (and only Communist) councilman; bald John Williamson, the party's labor secretary, out on bail pending a deportation hearing (TIME, Feb. 23) ; stocky Jack Stachel, little known...
Last week, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Petelka was looking for converts to his "Numbered Words," a code language that would probably have more appeal for mathematicians than for poets or orators. Whether it would achieve any more practical success than several thousand other international languages, hopefully devised by linguists and peace zealots ever since Babel (among them: Esperanto, Basic English, Volapiik, Novial, Ido, Ro, Nulango), was another story...
...crammed but meticulously neat workroom of his modest, flower-banked home on a hill overlooking Hollywood's famed Sunset "Strip," Stravinsky is now writing an opera (with Poet W. H. Auden) fashioned from Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and has just finished a Mass to "appeal directly to the spirit. Therefore, I sought very cold music, absolutely cold. No women's voices. They are by their very nature warm; they appeal to the senses...
...last thing Stravinsky now wants to do is appeal to the senses. He has come to loathe most of the 19th Century romantic composers except Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, who "was such a tremendous individual." He regards Wagner and his "heroic hardware" as "shamelessly sensual." Stravinsky has taken up arms in a battle as old as art, between the followers of Apollo (art from order and religiously hard work) and Dionysus (art from ecstasy). Stravinsky has ranged himself on Apollo's team...
Manhood Regained. Instead of smelling out his mates and attacking them with bites, as Mr. Cain's earlier heroes did, Jack never once smells a girl; he responds to visual appeal. It is, in fact, at the point that he does not respond to it-when he has been riding the rails as a hobo for some months and a Petty girl strips and wiggles for him in a passing compartment -that he realizes he will have to do something (i.e., steal) to regain his manhood. The emotional crisis is at length resolved by an oilman's wife...