Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wherever they went during their three-week tour of Europe, the Rolling Stones ignited havoc and hysteria. Now that the Beatles have retired from the road, the Stones have become the big squeal on the international pop-music circuit. They have a unique appeal. Like most British rock 'n' roll groups, they began by imitating such hard-rocking blues merchants as Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters (whose Rolling Stones Blues inspired their name); the result was a musically roughhewn sound sung in mock Negro dialect. In 1964, the Stones decided that if the Beatles were the goodies, they...
Lutes to Lumia. For all its science-fiction appeal, the use of light in art is not exactly new; all art depends on light in one way or another. Light rays mold the light and shadows on the surfaces of sculpture, reflect from pigments to give the eye its impression of form and color. But in traditional art, color is constant, not kinetic. And even the purest oil or watercolor pigments inevitably reflect not pure color, but a mixture of colors. The present-day luminist's dream of both movement and purity has had to await the 20th century...
Apart from good lawyers and proven box-office appeal, Carson had some borrowed leverage working for him-the threat of new competition from the ABC network. Theoretically, ABC's Joey Bishop Show, which started last week opposite Tonight, was bound to chip away at Carson's audience. After a week's run, it looks as if neither NBC nor Carson has anything serious to worry about...
...current regime will undoubtedly appeal for U.S. support on the basis that, if elections were held, the Left would be powerful enough to win, end the monarchy, adopt neutrality as a policy, pull Greece out of NATO, and eventually drag the country into the Communist camp. Already an Army spokesman has stated that the new government would "observe Greece's commitment to NATO" and would "solve the problem of Cyprus without disregarding the rights of the Turkish minority." Both declarations were delivered for Washington's benefit...
...emphasize that in opposing this sort of communist expansionism we did not take appeal to moral or legal norms. What interested us was not whether these communist political efforts in western Europe were moral or immoral, not whether they were legal or illegal. It was enough for us that they existed, and that they were dangerous to American interests...