Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memory of a golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release from a fate they found inscrutable? Or the television appeal by President Griswold, imploring alumni coast-to-coat to remain calm in their bungalows, bundled in warm blankets, crouched in dark corners...
...five lectures on the subject A Faith for Our World, Newbigin related the China problem to Arnold Toynbee's criticisms of the Church. Newbigin agreed with one point of Toynbee's: That Christianity, it it is to become such a world faith, must lose its western "provincialness" of appeal, and must show Christendom to be a "colony of heaven, not of the white race...
...appeal today must be to the self-interest of the Kremlin leaders," he concluded. "No one wants a full-scale nuclear...
Despite all the emotional appeal of Arabic unity to illiterate and hungry people, there were powerful reasons for independence: Baghdad's traditional rivalry with Cairo, neighboring Syria's melancholy experience as a Nasser satellite, the fact that Iraq's $200 million-a-year oil royalties would probably all go to oilless Egypt. Besides, Iraq's more than a million Kurds, a restless minority, have no desire to be drowned in a wider Arab sea. A month ago Kassem, unwilling to sit too hard on the only fellow conspirator privy to the timing of the overthrow...
Once a year about this time, the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Radcliffe Dance Group get together to produce one of the few Cambridge musical bargains having a universal appeal. Although the quality of the two groups varies from year to year, their joint free-of-charge concert at Sanders Theatre is an event of note even on the off-years...