Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band with such a cynical outlook would attract little attention outside of the self-conscious New Wave demimonde; but for less sophisticated ears. Depeche Mode embodies the cool kinetic madness of the best beat-box music, only with the less aggression...
...summer, the Kaddish or prayer for the dead, the morning prayers and Sabbath hymns, catch Ilana's ear while she is sitting on the beach building sand castles or reading on the porch with her mother. Soon, the exoticism of the yarmulkas, the Sabbath rituals and the dietary restrictions, attract Ilana and draw her near so that when she returns to Brooklyn in the fall she begins to secretly attend synagogue with the Dinns. Her father's trip to Spain to cover the by-now raging civil war makes her clandestine observance that much easier...
...whichever of the graduate school raise the quality of undergraduate education both "in the nature of what happens in the classroom," and in helping to attract professors by using a high quality graduate student program as a drawing card, said John R. Marquand, secretary to the Faculty Council...
...September 1986, Harvard will throw itself a 350th birthday party, promising to attract thousands of the nation's richest, most conservative, and most elite for a gala a la the Royal Wedding...
Although workers in both stores said they lost "spontaneous walk-in trade" when they first moved, Nancy Gilson of Pangloss said that having so many bookshops on the street has begun to attract more customers to the area...