Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCord has become well known for his revolutionary approach to alumni fund raising. As a man of letters, McCord introduced to the inevitable pleas for money a pleasant style and a literary touch. Brooks Atkinson '17 once said in a New York Times column about McCord's informal essays, "on...
Boston Mayor John Collins has consistently denied the theatre a permit to relocate, despite pleas from the Casino management and the city's well entrenched colony of burly fans.
Many Congressmen, Papp explained, are "pre-historic people who don't unstained the arts and fear them." Instead of making general pleas for federal aid, he asked artists to build up an audience first for their projects. Then, he said, public pressure will force local politicians to help finance them...
She lectured during the spring term of 1939 at Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Juilliard, bringing, according to Time "pleas for admission from hordes of Harvardmen."
Labor Catches Up. German businessmen complain that they are in danger of being priced out of world markets because wages in West Germany have been rising twice as fast as productivity. With labor costs up 21% in the past two years. German factory workers now earn an average $35 for...