An Ipas spokeswoman called the appeal "moderately successful".
An anonymous response to a treatise called "An Appeal to the Learned".
Kim Jong Il's regime called the appeal for talks "an intolerable insult".
Christopher T. Dunn, the associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, called the appeal a "stalling tactic".
In March of that year, he had helped draft an article called "An Appeal for Human Rights," which ran as a full-page advertisement in several Atlanta-area newspapers.
"Is it really so far-fetched to think that the air and the atmosphere belong to all of us?" Mr. Abrams called the appeal "a waste of taxpayer dollars".
Simon Shaw, head of Sotheby's Impressionist and modern art department in New York, called the appeal for a Klimt landscape like this "global".
Linda I. Gibbs, Mr. Bloomberg's commissioner for homeless services, called the appeal "critical in achieving the kind of goals that we want to achieve".
The classical music events included a series called Mass Appeal, with installments devoted to specific instruments, among them glockenspiels, harmonicas, clarinets, pianos, trombones, French horns, violins and cellos.
Mr. Smith called the appeal of the trailer-park aesthetic purveyed by Vice the latest twist on bohemia's old nostalgie de la boue.
Various Make Music events — the pianos, the glockenspiels, the megaphones, and a gathering of bagpipes on Staten Island, which, regrettably, I missed — articulated a running theme called Mass Appeal: convocations of many instruments of the same type.
