Word: lure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joint appointment with Harvard's English and Afro-Am Departments is in the works, according to professors. But Arnold Rampersad, the scholar at Columbia, may prove difficult to lure away...
Several professors who asked not to be named say that Harvard has tried on and off for years to lure Gates, to Harvard as a tenured professor, but they say those recruiting efforts have never resulted in a formal offer. Gates, a Cornell professor who holds appointments in the Africana Studies, Comparative Literature and English departments there, has written several books in recent years that have greatly expanded the reach of Afro-American literary criticism, scholars...
Arnold Rampersad, the Columbia professor Harvard hopes to lure to Cambridge for a joint appointment in the Afro-Am and English Departments, says his interest in Black literature was born during the political turmoil of the late 1960s...
...parents'. As mothers and fathers grow ever busier and more pressed for time, they frequently resort to toys that do the parenting for them: the bears that tell bedtime stories, the plastic heroes who teach virtue. For many children, a toy whose nostalgic appeal and sheer pleasure lure parents back into the playroom may be the best present...
...safer alternative for Shamir might be to lure Labor into a broad coalition. But the party would be a junior partner, and the opening round of talks proved humiliating for its leader, Shimon Peres. "It's a joke," said Labor Party member Yossi Beilin. "They need us as a fig leaf, and their demands are impossible...