Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stayed in this community has been permitted to hold a professional job, in the white man's sense of the word. As a consequence the most ambitious young people develop skills either in positions where white men will accept them, such as catering; or where they can attract a great deal of fairly high priced Negro business, such as directing funerals; or in positions where they can gain their community's unquestioning respect, such as pastoring in a Negro Church or teaching in the Negro High School...
...intervened until two weeks before it was to take effect. This is what brought on the charges of U.S. bad faith. Though clumsily handled, the U.S. case had merit in its main point that when many of the new jets are flying the Atlantic half empty, the way to attract more passengers is to lower fares...
...unclassifiable experiments in elementary scientific education which departments will not support. Such lower-level courses belong under the guidance of the same organization that should be chosen to direct the freshman seminars, the Committee on General Education. The handsome financial support which is available for Gen Ed courses should attract faculty with ideas to try, and the enthusiasm and originality of the faculty should attract students with minds...
Even as a phenomenon for study, institutionalized religion did not attract James. Religious experience, he felt, should be first-hand, vital, and the remedy for otherwise incurable maladies of the soul. "At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether?" Assuredly the moralist assents to the reigning order, but he may endure it with "the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke." The religious man, on the other hand...
...Luria research department, the industry's first and biggest, is now testing a contraption to reduce a whole auto to egg-sized pellets that could be easily stoked into oxygen converters or other furnaces. In a business long suffering from an inferiority complex, Ablon has been able to attract graduates from such schools as Harvard, Princeton and M.I.T. Once an English teacher at Ohio State, he got his own start in scrap "by marrying the boss's daughter"-a Luria heiress...