Word: appeals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started out slightly nervous, licking his lips, hesitant. But Jimmy Carter's opening statement at his press conference under the grandiose chandeliers of the White House East Room was a purposeful and passionate appeal to the American people. "I need your help," he said. "This is a democracy. Your voice can be heard. Your voice must be heard...
...political body that considers itself historic, the election of a victim of Nazism symbolized the enduring European reconciliation to which it is committed. Veil regularly tops the polls as the most popular political figure in France. In Strasbourg, it was hoped that her grass roots appeal could help the untested new Parliament make up with prestige and influence what it lacks in constitutional power...
Author Pikul's suggestion that the empress slept with Rasputin, for which there is no basis in fact, seems designed merely to appeal to the prurient interests of the proletariat. So do passages alluding to Rasputin's vast sexual appetite and his zest for orgies-which have been amply documented by historians. But the book seemingly has other and more unsavory functions. One is to encourage the xenophobia that still has a strong hold on the many Russian chauvinists in the elite, who believe that alien forces have caused their homeland's troubles down through the ages...
Even more striking is the book's appeal to antiSemitism. According to Pikul, Rasputin was the tool of "Zionists," who exploited his political influence on the imperial family, paying the monk off with bonds, cash and cases of his favorite Madeira. With backing from Jewish bankers, Rasputin and his secretary, Aaron Simonovich, allegedly owned several night clubs "with card tables, and a buffet frequented by strange-looking, svelte women with eyes big from cocaine...
...craft's appeal is obvious. Windsurf boards cost considerably less and are more portable and easier to maintain than most sailboats. They are as safe as surfboards: since the foam-filled board stops dead and floats when a sailor drops his mast in the water, the Coast Guard has exempted the craft from its usual life-vest requirement. Many lifeguards, in fact, are using the boards as lifesaving and rescue crafts...