Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economics of Broadway make it nearly imperative to seat 1200 to 1800 people or even more, and the production must be large, loud, and brassy to attract a big audience. Yet the most worthwhile plays in the dramatic repertoire will neither admit of such elaborate production nor draw the kind of audience necessary. Thus off-Broadway is not a substitute for Broadway, but is complementary, and is in many cases an improvement...
...believe that America would be able to find the 500,000 competent teachers who will be needed in the coming decade and that as a result of this, many colleges would have to be satisfied with inferior products while the few so-called "big name" colleges would attract the good...
...undergraduates might be improved if exercise could be made interesting and useful by offering classes in worthwhile sports. This exercise can be obtained in the intra-mural program, but because of lack of ability or pressure, many do not participate in this program. The availability of organized instruction would attract those who need the program most, the hesitant beginners...
...would never regain much of the textile industry it has lost. Although all the southern states which have absorbed the textile industries have graduated income taxes, the absence of unions provides a supply of "cheap labor," which Massachussetts cannot provide. He noted, however, that the lowered corporation taxes might attract technical industries...
...average modern academic Easterner's ultra-romanticization of the "Back to the Woods" movement, Dartmouth does not have to exaggerate the Carnival's attractiveness too greatly. It is claimed to be the "Mardi Gras of the North" and "A truly college, all college week-end--the biggest, coldest, and certainly the best-known in the world." It is certainly not the best college weekend in the country, that of the University of Colorado, for instance, being much better, but it does attract better looking women than the average Cambridge weekend...