Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wang, however, is powerless to deal with the less educated. His appeal can only be made in language and logic which would be incomprehensible to the crowds on the Common. Ironically, this limitation on his audience destroys him. For his logic, exposed to the least sophisticated analysis, becomes illogic, and his language becomes the old refrain of hate...
...court found him guilty. Its sentence (suspended pending appeal): four months' imprisonment, plus four strokes with a bamboo cane...
...through the role like a wayward fever. Her deathbed agonies had the quiet poignancy and the ring of truth that so often evade lesser artists. All in all, Callas gave the Met its most exciting Traviata in years, and demonstrated again that she has lost none of the turbulent appeal that can magnetize an audience at the flick of an arm or a twist of the head. Diva Callas' next Met roles: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Tosca...
...wings, flying for the sheer sport of it or touring the country in planes instead of the family car. In one heady year, the industry made 34,568 aircraft, seven years' normal production, and collapsed the market. Sport flying proved too expensive, and touring by plane found little appeal. By 1948 production was down to 7,039 planes; three years later it was hedgehopping, with only 2,279 units worth $14 million. Many companies went broke. Many others turned to outside lines-farm machinery, industrial tools, even pie plates-to survive...
...Upper Story is not an art gallery, a coffee house, or a bargain bookstore. Whatever esoteric appeal the gift shop had while situated on an upper story was lost when it moved to a street-level, plate-glass window site on Church Street. According to Mrs. Howe, who runs The Upper Story with her husband, "We're eight years old, actually, and I guess you might say we've grown right along with Harvard Square. We were located on the second floor in that little alleyway where the Coop bookstore is. We were the first of several second floor shops...