Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Townsend prefers the Carmel of her past, preserved from fast-food outlets and the like. " 'Save our village' is not just a slogan," she says. "It's an appeal from the heart." Most Carmel residents agree, up to a point. McDonald's will never rear its golden arches within the one-square-mile village, and franchisers are likely to get a warmer reception in Moscow. This is a town that has banned neon and has precious few streetlights or sidewalks. Residents pick up their mail at the post office because houses are identified by names like "Apricot Pit" or "Little...
...killings of two anti- Marcos trade-union dispatchers in Seattle. The former Philippine President also continues to be named in a host of lawsuits around the U.S. As lawyers for the deposed dictator fended off legal actions, citizens of Davenport, Iowa, responded enthusiastically to a disk jockey's appeal to ease the plight of the Marcoses--sending 1,500 pairs of used footwear, including bowling shoes and swim fins, to replace the collection former First Lady Imelda left behind at Malacanang Palace. One hundred pairs were sent to Mrs. Marcos, the rest to the local Salvation Army...
...surprised to find companionship sought by Radcliffe '45, Harvard '68 and Harvard-Radcliffe '59. Those who don't attach any special meaning to the word "veritas" are described as Yale Ph.D, MIT grad, Vassar '54, or Wellesley woman. The emphasis is clearly on degree, not sex appeal...
Schlesinger listed several qualities crucialfor a CIA agent, including having an easy-goingpersonality, an ability to appeal to seniorofficials, and good instincts...
...shiny appeal of such fragments--like slogans, logos, celebrated epigrams--leads us to swallow them whole without looking inside to the essential emptiness. Here, the fragmentation in Barthes' writing is not deliberate, not a formal statement but rather an unfortunate accident...