Word: lure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasing number of West German politicians, expecially the Socialists, regard Konrad Adenauer's stern insistence on reunification, with no strings attached, as dead-end diplomacy. They are flirting restlessly with the notion that if the West agreed to discuss German demilitarization first, it might be able to lure Moscow into serious talks about reunification...
...myth of security has supplemented the myth of success, according to the University Professor, and the religious resurgence must resist the "lure of security" if it is to provide the ability to ask the "radical question of meaning...
...beaten, Yale and Harvard alumni went to work to interest academically qualified players in their respective alma maters. They operated under restrictions. Only an estimated 3% of the best U.S. high school players can meet the Ivy schools' scholastic requirements. No financial help can be promised. But the lure of an Ivy-school degree is an important recruiting tool and, within limits, alumni can find a way. Of the 16 freshmen receiving scholarship help from the Harvard Club of Boston this year, 13 had either played varsity football or captained teams in other sports. The current Harvard freshman team...
...Eliot for permission to hire Harvard professors to teach young ladies. The ladies got their permission and hired their profs-and also female chaperons to sit beside them as they taught. The college prospered under Miss Comstock, but until the last year of her reign, she still had to lure Harvard faculty members each year to teach part time at Radcliffe. Then, in 1943, she outraged old Harvards, gave malicious delight to their Yale and Princeton acquaintances by negotiating the deal that allowed Radcliffe girls to attend Harvard classes, in effect brought coeducation to both schools...
...rhythmically gay and tinny music, La Plume has a sort of dreamlike clockwork precision, a sense of Jacques being nimble, Jacques being quick. But it is something very like charm that most enhances what is good in the show and cushions what is not. It is what lends lure to Robert Dhery's unbrilliant compere patter, appealingness to Pierre Olaf's pranks. It adds something human and wistful to the calisthenic comedy of the high point of the evening. This first-act finale, in which four monks make jubilant Maypole madness of four bell ropes, becomes-even...