Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offensive against Russian Communism was nowhere more evident than in France. Russia had accepted the U.S. political challenge by ordering its French followers to revolutionary violence. The violence had failed of its purpose. Once forced into the open as a tool of Moscow, Communism had lost much of its appeal to Frenchmen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...hopeless cause of world peace found no sympathizers, however, with one ancient biblic title page addressed to "three great war lords." The appeal, sandwiched between the prophecy of Micah IV:3 and beginning "they shall beat their swords into plowshares" was not addressed to Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman, and Clement Attlee, but "Your Majesties George William, and Nicholas" in the year...
...finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents so much as in the social elements to which the appeal goes forth. "The Good Road" plays before "invitation" audiences of people with either means or influence. Furthermore, the public figures who lend it the strength of their names include, in addition to chairman Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, both the moneyed such as the New York Stock Exchange's Emil Sehram...
...Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, chairmaned by Dr. Edward K. Barsky, now out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for contempt of Congress...
...contribute. It is up to Signature itself to break the vicious circle by campaigning for the material, and its new contest is an important step. But the editors' obvious fear of being called neurotic or esoteric, coupled with their desire to print trash on the assumption that it will appeal to the non-literary student, limits them to the banal and the unimaginative. They would do well to forget about drama and poetry issues, windy articles and superficial literary crusades ("Where is drama heading?") for the time being, and concentrate on putting out the best material they...