Word: appealingness
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As the economic crisis tightens the screws on the city, both individual investors and Hong Kong businesses are appealing to the government for help. Pensioners who invested in Lehman mini-bonds have staged a series of protests during the last three weeks. And on Sunday, a group of business owners...
“In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.” So said Adlai Stevenson in 1952—rather ironically, given his failure, two times, to be nearly as well liked as Ike...
“Salad Days” aren’t just dinners in the dining hall when the hot meal seems less than appealing. A phrase first penned by Shakespeare, “Salad Days” is also the title choreographer Sara Hook gave to the production comprised...
A brief note before continuing though: while there is great danger in grouping all art from China into a single artistic category (just as it would be to group all contemporary American art into something similar) it is useful to think of Chinese art in terms of a series of...
A number of public figures in Britain have stepped forward to champion specific words, hoping to demonstrate they are compossible (possible in coexistence) with everyday speech. Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate since 1999, selected skirr, which refers to the rattling, scratchy noise that a bird's wings make during...