Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Associate Editor Gregory Jaynes, who wrote the story that accompanied Margie Brauer's appeal for understanding -- in which she complained mildly about her old eyeglasses and her need for dental work -- is not surprised by the burst of sympathy. Jaynes first read her missive last July, after it was passed along to him by Senior Writer Frank Trippett, who received a copy from a friend at a North Carolina newspaper. "I was about halfway through reading it when I started crying," recalls Jaynes. "I thought, if I'm crying, this letter should reach daylight." His instincts proved correct. "Margie...
...trustees. He is a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "I feel I must give back," says Tisch. He and his brother are active patrons of and participants in various Jewish organizations, including the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and the United Jewish Appeal. The family is religious: once a week a Talmudic scholar comes to Tisch's office, where he and two of his sons join in a discussion of the Bible and Jewish tradition...
That does not mean that revolutionary violence can never be justified. It is hard to argue, for example, that South African blacks may not take up arms for their freedom. It means only that an appeal to root causes is not automatic justification. The Philippine Islands are replete with root causes as deep and difficult as any others in the world. Appeal to these causes, however, is not enough to justify either the ends (Communist) or the means (brutal and terroristic) of the New People's Army...
...Hunts will appeal Sanders' ruling, and they immediately demanded that the judge be disqualified from hearing their case. Their court petition argued that "one cannot be blind to the background of long-standing philosophical and political differences between the honorable Barefoot Sanders and . . . members of the Hunt family." But Sanders refused to remove himself from the case...
...short, like all conscientious artists, Moore composed his own tribunal, that of the great dead from whose silent judgment there is no appeal. Naturally, his lack of close affinity with the avant-garde -- or even with the idea of avant-gardism -- made him seem like a fuddy-duddy to some younger sculptors, particularly in the '60s. It might have been otherwise had he behaved like the Great English Artist people were always making him out to be, but he was utterly without pretension, and his zeal for public service, as long...