Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precisely his restraint and respectability that make Eastland a far more dismaying phenomenon than Vardaman and his ilk ever were. When an old-style Southern politician made an unvarnished appeal to racial hatred, it was possible to dismiss it as a coldly cynical maneuver to get the poor white vote; it was obvious that the decent, educated white people of the South did not feel that way. But when James Eastland soberly proclaims his undying opposition to integrated schools, he is obviously speaking from a profound conviction, and his voice is the authentic voice of most of the South...
Nasser's Arab underground makes its appeal to a universal distaste for colonialism. But the struggle for freedom is one thing; campaigns of terror against the moderates who try to negotiate that freedom is another. Nasser's agitators have scored a certain success, but so far it is principally the all too easy success of destruction...
...story is compellingly told in terms of Doris L., a young woman admitted to California's Metropolitan State Hospital as a catatonic. Mute, withdrawn, her eyes blank and disregarding of the world, Doris nevertheless had a great natural dignity, an almost glacial repose that seemed invulnerable to any appeal. For 2% months a concealed camera recorded her psychiatric sessions with Dr. Louis Cholden. His slow struggle to reach a human being submerged in indifference had in it all the wire-thin inten sity of great drama. When Doris finally smiled and spoke her first word ("pretty...
...most constructive effort to examine university education came in the last few minutes, during a meeting of the deans with President Pusey. The subject of the round table talk, "How applied should a University education be?" had appeal to both the public and to educators. But the time spent at the track, the cage, the river, and the rink left little for the Deans. They could do little but generalize and, as President Pusey did, quote from President Eliot--"Truth and right above utility." They were followed by Professor Emeritus Samuel Eliot Morrison in an interesting talk on the "Veritas...
Paul M. Sweezy '31, former instructor in Economics here, had petitioned the New Hampshire Supreme Court for a rehearing of his March 7 contempt conviction. If the petition is refused, Sweezy plans to appeal the decision to the United States Supreme Court...