Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bookselling company which has been banned on campus for the past seven years because of its irregular recruiting practices has allegedly been violating college regulations again this year while trying to attract summer employees...
...dean's second premise is that the University's drive to attract faculty who are not white and male will not subside in the absence of federal pressure. Yet his own report acknowledges that "outside pressure" may have been initially responsible for Harvard's internal monitoring of its hiring practices. And with the persistence of selfstyled meritocrats on the Faculty, it is by no means obvious that an unpressured Harvard would continue to strive for truly color-blind and sex-blind hiring practices...
...much of activism discourages those very abilities. Rallies seeking to attract numbers of people. Petitions requiring numbers of signatures. Politicians working for numbers of votes. Too often such activities belie a genuine concern for people as people: they dehumanize de-personalize, and in the end depress...
Unlike gold prospectors, novelists must pick nuggets out of their heads. Both occupations seem to attract similar characters: stubborn loners who sacrifice time and ties for a big elusive payoff. John A. Williams, 56, has written more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction without striking a mother lode. He is a good writer with a big theme: being black in America. By now every honest citizen should know that racism is a national birth defect, which, in the absence of a cure, requires ceaseless applications of justice. This cry is implicit in Williams' work, though most readers...
Humphreys said he expects the more moderate stand of the Chronicle--which originally started in 1977--to attract greater support than its radical predecessor. The group is planning another issue for May and hopes to keep the publication going throughout next year...