Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hotshots draw regular fire from purists for turning an aesthetic pursuit into a macho, competitive struggle. But even superlisters have been known to speak of birds with awe and wonder. Explanations for the appeal of birding proliferate, says Joseph Kastner, author of A World of Watchers, because it is hard to explain what the beauty and freedom of birds can do to the human psyche. At the heart of birding, he writes, is the "astonished awareness that comes in some unguarded moment when the watcher is left oddly vulnerable to feelings that only nature can provoke...
...Civil Liberties Docket, Civil Liberties Reporter, Civil Liberties Review, Civil Liberty, Civil Rights Digest, Civil Rights Update, and the ever-popular Civil Rights Newsletter of Colorado. The last periodical must exist because the people of the great state of Colorado find that the national civil liberties publications don't appeal to them...
...brushed back his hair with the same gesture that Kennedy used, walked with the same gait, held his hand in his jacket pocket with the thumb sticking out, just as J.F.K. did. He has a penchant for some of the high destinarian rhetoric that Kennedy used, the appeal to a visionary new generation. Hart kept using the first person plural in his press releases. His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon...
...downfall after 33 years in the ministry was especially awkward. He had been the Illinois superintendent for the denomination and had served 14 years on the very body that ordered his defrocking. Bakker and Dortch, who had no immediate response to the action, have 30 days to file an appeal to the Executive Presbytery, although that is considered unlikely...
Presidential aspirants are unprotected. And sometimes suspected. It is probably fair to say that John Kennedy's legendary White House athletics (including a rumored romp on the Lincoln bed with a National Security Council staffer) had a kind of wicked appeal, and a lot of young politicians took up his hairstyle, stage mannerisms, the projection of thinly veiled lust. And maybe more...