Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party. Their offense, apparently, was an open letter to the Weatherman faction last month, critical of Moore and Tabor. The party and other supporters had arranged their bail ($150,000) because of the pair's leadership qualities. Both Tabor, 24, and Moore, 28, had been counted on to attract support-and money-for those still in jail. Their performance failed to live up to expectations. But no one thought that Moore and Tabor would run out. It had seemed that they were headed for light sentences or perhaps acquittal...
...Yorkers, as well as some rank and file elements elsewhere, have also kept the pugnacity that originally guided Panther tactics. The Oakland Panthers have recently become more restrained in their activities. The increasing preoccupation with "pan-revolutionism" and ideological rhetoric helped weaken the Panthers' efforts to attract the less sophisticated. The fact that so many Panther leaders are in jail or exile also damaged discipline...
...cameras, and should, therefore, be more properly evaluated by aesthetic than by political criteria, according to the quality of the dialogue, costumes, acting, and directing." In a sense, of course, Brustein is right. Ignoring the sincerity, or the motivations, of Forman or Carson, obviously their actions are designed to attract the maximum public attention, in the most compelling way. They are acting out a drama. But is it necessary to be as cynical as Brustein...
...Over 9000 Harvard students, professors, and administrators live off-campus in Cambridge. They can afford higher rents which forces poor and working-class families to leave old neighborhoods as rents skyrocket. Universities like Harvard and M?LT. tend to attract research and technical firms to Cambridge, further altering neighborhoods and bringing more middle income people to the city to live. To alleviate the housing shortage, the high rents, the break-up of neighborhoods, Harvard must do its part...
...Kennedy had opposed Seattle-based Boeing's supersonic transport; Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff. who has had past differences with the Kennedy brothers; and South Dakota's George McGovern, an announced presidential candidate, who is trying to appeal to the same kinds of voters that a Kennedy candidacy would probably attract...