Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near future, look for some market-research survey to come up with these conclusions: To whom will cryobiology appeal most? Middle and upper-class agnostics and atheists. To whom will it appeal least? Nuns (who aren't a heck of a good market anyway). Who will benefit most? Lawyers, existentialists, loan companies, adaptable morticians. What group will be most resistant to it? Eskimos. To whom will it all be one big joke? Those who finally develop the knowledge to thaw us out and the common sense...
...Rembrandt, currently on display in of the period have immense appeal. But the reluctance of Museum directors to loan their most popular showpieces makes the exhibition a disappointment. The exhibition contains no Vermeers and only nine Rembrandts (eight of insignificant quality). The seven paintings by Hals, though over-emphasizing his later work, succeed exceptionally well. The late Portrait of a Woman from the Saint Louis Museum, and the small Portrait of a Man are exceptionally beautiful. They both have the characteristic dark background of Hals' late canvasses, and they demonstrate the virtuosity--particularly in Portrait...
...rebutting Harris, Lowenstein focused on the criteria of efficacy: students, he said, could have a considerably impact on government policy; but they must appeal to the "broad middle" of the American public, accomplishing with large numbers what they might not be able to do with sheer intensity of feeling...
...Their appeal so far, based primarily on a vague sense of malaise, has not dealt with the specifics of government policy; nor has it taken a position on possible alternatives...
...them up. Both Chicago's and New York State's open-housing laws have now passed significant tests in their respective state courts. More important, the Illinois and New York courts allowed their states the power to punish real estate brokers for discriminatory actions. In Chicago, the appeal of a local association of real estate brokers was denied. The association alleged on various grounds that their constitutional rights were being compromised by the city's fair-housing ordinance. The court thought otherwise, holding that a broker's license can be legitimately suspended if he is found...