Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finds it hard to control the Cabinet factions. His major innovation-an aperturismo, or opening, of the political process-was to have allowed a spectrum of parties to organize. But because the law in effect gave the Falange power to decide which parties were permissible, the offer failed to attract any new groups...
This is not to say that all Radcliffe women are afflicted with power sexism. Obviously many find great satisfaction in their relationships with other women. Sexism is probably more prevalent among women living in the Harvard Houses which attract more of these women in the first place. And it doesn't necessarily go so far as to estrange women from each other. It might merely dictate a woman's choice of mates; she might prefer higher-ups in the University power structure, or to t it euphemistically, men who are "doing things...
Mercier and Camier, forerunners of Estragon and Vladimir in Godot, set out on a mysterious journey through vaguely Irish scenery. Mercier is "a big bony hank with a beard," and Camier has a "red face, scant hair, four chins, protruding paunch, bandy legs, beady pig eyes." Naturally their amblings attract attention. A policeman who sees them warns: "This is a sidewalk, not a circus ring...
...movie plan was not too much different last Friday night except that the Stooge-a-than was to be a bit grander and a variety of gimmicks was planned. Ten Stooges shorts ("all Curly!" the posters boasted, and it seemed clear that this was designed to attract the true aficionados who wouldn't hear of stooping to Shemp, or Curly Joe, or the unmentionable Just Plain Joe, who eternally smudged the dynasty of the Third Stooge by daring to turn Curly's inimitable mannerism into a parody of fagdom), plays a lecture by Cantor and, what promised...
...careers or for staff positions as sophisticated policy analysts. A graduate school will gather a faculty composed of members trained in one of the traditional academic disciplines who share a taste for policy issues. A professional school will likewise include such persons within its faculty, but it will also attract many professors who have received their training in professional schools and have spent some portion of their career in public service. A graduate school will be chiefly concerned with research, often of a disciplinary oriented nature, and even its educational program will be directed toward the development of research skills...