Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quality; at his best Corelli uses it with an animal vitality and drive that leave no audience bored. In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage door, and there is every evidence that he may do for tenors what Ezio Pinza did for bassos. Says he: "I attract mostly young, very beautiful girls...
...Passion Rejected. Their rambling house in Palo Alto quickly began to attract streams of visitors, many of them students and professors from Stanford University. When Michael died of cancer in 1938, Sarah promised that she would leave the bulk of her collection to Stanford. But as time passed, friends began to notice some disturbing changes in Sarah. The beautiful Matisses that had been her life's consuming passion began to seem of no importance to her. It turned out that she was selling off the collection piece by piece at ridiculously low sums to pay for her grandson...
...issues nor established an image for himself. These failures remind one of his performance in the presidential election, and the results could be equally disastrous for him. Only if Nixon adopts a strong posture can he possibly draw together the two or three Republican parties that now exist, or attract any sizable following among Democrats. Since registered Republicans make up only 40 per cent of the electorate, Nixon will have to repeat his 1960 achievement, when he captured about 25 per cent of the Democratic vote...
...order to have a staff you must be able to attract people from outside; for that purpose you need more than a "focus of attention" and even more than a good deal of worthy but disconnected activity. One method of making Harvard look appealing is to have a Center already--admittedly impossible. Another is to tie the program onto an existing center, that for International Affairs: This might once have been a good idea--because the Center's prestige and that of Robert Bowie, its director, are enormous--but the decision to work through Pusey rather than Bowie has, irrevocably...
Although a House may not attract a great number of applications, the selection system based on distribution quotas assures that each House will get its desired share of excellence stated Perkins. The Masters can thus shape the House through the selection process, for each Master tends to approach the selection of students in a different...