Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cunning intent by playing on peoples' fears and hostile emotions to attract to himself mass support. He built his following by feeding hateful attitudes and by unleashing bigotry, for to the frightened and worried the fears he played on were so real that he appeared to them as hero and savior. He advanced his political career by first inciting a mass public opinion...
These critics go about their task in a way hauntingly familiar to an older generation. Their aim is to build a following for themselves. They would do this by sowing doubts and suspicions. They hope then to attract sufficient support to be able to enforce demands on those whom they malign and designate as the enemy, using the old means of distortion, accusation, guilt imputed by association, and so on. And they thrive as people lend them credence...
...result of this jockeying for position was that Harvard radicals moved themselves into position where they were unlikely to attract continuing support even from those on their immediate right. As spring opened, PL was still preaching the ultimate proletarian revolution, while NAC, going them one better spurred Boston street people to begin the revolution now by breaking windows in Harvard Square...
...there an Eastern Liberal Media Establishment? Certainly, to the extent that many influential news organizations have headquarters in Washington or New York and that the people who work for them are exposed to similar ideas. "Our profession," says Atlantic Magazine Editor Bob Manning, "does attract a certain kind of guy. He's curious. He's got a considerable amount of skepticism. He's apt to question the motives or statements of everybody in power." It is probably also true that most journalists tend to be liberal. More specifically, it is a condition of their profession...
...single bond unites the oil barons of Houston, it is belief in the manifest destiny of their freewheeling metropolis. Having established Houston as the premier city of the Southwest, local businessmen are engaged in one of their brashest ventures-a multibillion-dollar development program to attract corporations from the problem-plagued urban areas of the Northeast...