Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Augustus of Hanover, who is descended from King James I's granddaughter, the Electress Sophia of Hanover, and thereby legally entitled to ascend the British throne -provided that the 60-odd heirs who precede him all die. Last week, after a year of litigation, the British court of appeal ruled that Prince Ernest's ancestry entitles him to an even more useful privilege: that of British nationality. By implication, the court's decision, based on a law passed in 1705, would grant the same privilege, on application, to the present Kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Greece...
Oistrakh himself is beyond analyzing his own appeal. Unlike many great musicians, he does not give the dramatic impression of being possessed by his art or driven by passion; he has the unostentatious, businesslike dedication of a man who simply was not born to do anything else. Once when asked what he did when he wanted to forget music. David Oistrakh replied, a little shocked: "But I don't want to forget music...
Champagne Diet. Monteux gets his results partly by impeccable musicianship, partly by his remarkable vitality, partly by personal appeal. Says Tenor Tucker: "I love him. I want to hug him the minute...
...that U.S. forces should be limited to some 7,500 men at any one time. The three bases at Sidi Slimane, Benguerir and Nouasseur absorbed the full quota of Americans. The French will not let any more in: they are jealous of their own prestige, fearful of U.S. political appeal for the restive Moroccans, and no longer so worried about a general war. Last week, caught in this embarrassing spot, the U.S. Air Force in Washington insisted that it had never really intended to use Boulhaut as an operational base, and had spent the $23 million on it only...
...Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose modern poetic world has been defined by Poet Marianne Moore as "imaginary gardens...