Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of the slow, steady erosion of the coalition of ethnic minorities, Negroes and intellectuals that F.D.R. forged 34 years ago. Negro militancy has siphoned off much support from urban Italians, Irish and Slavs. The war has disenchanted many intellectuals. Of greater concern to the Democrats is their fading appeal to the blue-collar vote, once their mainstay. California's Brown, who had the support of labor leaders but lost the rank-and-file vote, noted: "Workers used to ask about workmen's compensation and disability insurance. Not this time. The workers have become aristocrats, and when they become aristocrats...
Scheer's open appeal to Negroes and lower class whites probably alienated many Berkeley faculty members. "The Cal people didn't like me finding lawyers for Oakland winos and providing community services, like the old Tammany Hall," he says. "They said they couldn't vote for me because 'undesirables' were taking over my campaign. I figured my campaign wasn't enough of a glorious symbol for them...
...children will not even find the door without an encyclopedia. Sales of encyclopedias written for school kids have at least tripled in the past ten years. Educators agree that an encyclopedia can aid learning, but only if it has something significant to say in clear words and pictures that appeal to a child - and only a few sets really do that...
...vote of 5 to 2, the high state court rejected all her claims. Chief Judge Charles Desmond, no Miranda admirer, nonetheless hotly dissented on the ground that every other direct appeal (excluding certain property-rights cases) in the history of New York's top court, had always been "decided according to the law as we found it on the day of decision." "New York," he said, "should make Miranda retroactive in accordance with its own traditions...
...Morrill has said that the Coop has always relied on the best architectural and legal advice. But it is a matter of record that the plans drawn as a result of this advice were found wanting by the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal, the Cambridge Planning Board, the Massachusetts Legislature, the Governor of Massachusetts, and Judge Traveira of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. It would seem logical that Mr. Morrill look to his architect and lawyer rather than a Church Street Trustee for blame and redress. Sheldon Dietz Trustee, Church Street Trust