Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book [on federalism] should appeal to the new breed of Democrats and liberal Republicans. I'm a liberal Republican basically. I hope that the Bush administration will be responsive...
They clearly relish the opportunity to get back to their own work. Though Naked Gun is "less of a film satire" than Airplane! was, it has a similar loony appeal...
...math and music," remarks Math Department Chair Arthur M. Jaffe in an interview, as ancient music floated softly from a nearby compact disk player. Jaffe, proficient at piano and clarinet, habitually conducts "business" in his office to the tune of a favorite concerto or madrigal. "Somehow music seems to appeal to mathemeticians more than, say, reading," he notes...
...late Middle Ages, however, music theorists began to experiment with non-rational intervals to enhance aesthetic appeal. "Musicians began to be disillusioned with the rigidness of the mathematical structure," McConnell says. "Math and music began to diverge--each culture began to build up its own world, with its own great people and its own great ideas...finally the two 'worlds' became separate...
Music and math may appeal to individuals who seek aesthetic beauty within a tight structural framework, suggests Mark Spivakovsky, a math junior fellow. "On the one hand, both are rigid and restrictive in structure," he says, "but on the other hand, there's something fantastically creative in both that is hidden...