Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Departments with fewer than two dozen students appeal to prospective concentrators for a variety of reasons--a desire for personal attention, the attraction of the exotic and the desire to learn something outside the regular. Jean L. Gee '86 chose to major in Statistics, which shares the distinction of having the fewest concentrators with the department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, because she didn't want to be "just another Ec major." Joseph F. Rogers '86 decided to concentrate in a field new to him, Afro-American Studies, because he wanted to learn about a subject he had not been...
...culmination of the Victory plan would be a nationwide general strike, accompanied by other acts of civil disobedience. Aquino's goal was to make Marcos relinquish the power he has wielded from the presidential Malacanang Palace since 1966. Said she: "Let me appeal to all friends of democracy and supporters of freedom abroad. Stand tall by these principles that you and I hold dear...
...both Johns and Marcel Duchamp have been there before, one with his puzzling equivocations between things painted and things named, the other with his mock- scientific glosses. But this is no bad paternity for an artist to have, and the slightly skittish intelligence of Winters' paintings is bound to appeal to those sated (as who is not?) by routine parades of gut sincerity and pantomime anguish...
...modest too, saying, "I am certain there are many, many women who are far more eligible than I." Maybe so, but GQ's readers do not agree. Of all the women featured, Cuomo has so far elicited the most mail response. Perhaps it is not so surprising, since sex appeal seems to be a family trait. Five months ago, Playgirl picked her dad as one of the ten sexiest men in America...
...people kill, and what can we do to stop them? Too often, we appeal to unseen forces to explain behavior. A psychiatrist on one of the local news shows suggested that the Tylenol murderer acted out of "feelings of alienation and frustration and great hostility." But that explains nothing. Why does he (or she) feel "alienated" or "frustrated" or "hostile?" The causes of these pseudo-causes lie outside the person, in the environment. And it is the environment we must change if we are to change the individual's behavior...