Word: applaudable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd, I could see a clumsily-assembled group of 100 people who punctuated the speech at just the right points with tumultuous applause. The rest of the crowd, in marked contrast to the traditional ebulience of Greek political meetings, were passive. Most people around me did not applaud; people looking out of windows did nothing but glumly watch...
...growing up with borrowed nostalgia," I applaud your most interesting Essay "The Late Show as History" [June 28]. The oldtimers may not have had perfect style, but they had class...
...Your article, "Opening Eyes in the Ghettos" [June 21], was very interesting and one can heartily applaud these new and daring programs. The St. Louis public schools have used the City Art Museum extensively as a cultural resource. Ten years ago, only 2,000 children attended classes there; 39,000 attended in the '67-'68 school year and paid their own bus fares. The St. Louis City Art Museum is located in Forest Park in the center of the city. Barefoot ghetto children who fish in the many lakes in the park now leave their fishing poles...
...least important about this small, fierce novel is that it is a brilliant stunt-a male author staying undetected, for the length of a book, in the mind of a female main character. Brian Moore does not pull off his wig and bow, nor is there any impulse to applaud. Applause, of course, would mean that the deception had failed. It is, in fact, successful, and Moore earns, with great cleverness, a distinction that many writers are born with-that of being judged as a lady novelist...
...fine them, but plans to use discipline only "in the nature of reserve powers." Instead, she has already announced her own positive "interventionist", policy, inviting unions to negotiate wage increases of any size-as long as they are based on equal gains in productivity. She was quick to applaud just that kind of an agreement recently (even though it will boost some wages 46% over three years) between Rootes Motors and two unions. She also hopes to encourage companies to establish management-labor committees on productivity. Her plan has some merit: British productivity has for years been the despair...