Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, bedizened, sad-eyed circus troupe-a world not of popcorn but of pony ballets, with a touch of childlike innocence redeeming its tawdriness. Carnival! is, in fact, out of the movie Lili, with a faint echo or two of Liliom; it celebrates a milieu whose romantic lure is born of its realistic hardships, a milieu almost symbolically touching for its way of suggesting the loneliness in crowds, the heartbreak in gaiety, and the homelessness of perky circus wagons...
...resolute mavericks, who have turned their backs on modern, industrialized urban life. Each is very much his own man in a world of courage, cunning, and solitude-qualities that invade the suburban commuter's mind in recurring fantasies of Mittyland. The pull of the books is the lure of a lost horizon, a kind of pre-Eden, with free men and animals sharing the primordial rhythms of Nature...
Shortly after leaving Gettysburg to unlimber on Palm Springs' Eldorado links, Dwight D. Eisenhower insisted that he hadn't "a plan beyond this next stroke." But the lure of the pen soon proved mightier than the mashie, and the war chronicler-whose 1948 Crusade in Europe sold 1,500,000 copies and earned him $635,000-promised an updater. Ike's subject: "My eight years in the presidency and the lessons I believe can be drawn therefrom...
...subscription service brings him and a partner about $350,000 a year, and Drew spends more than $150,000 in a good year for advertising to lure new subscribers. He once got separate letters from two partners in the same Wall Street firm requesting his service. Each asked that Drew's report be sent to his home rather than to the office. Neither wanted his partner to know that he was succumbing to Drew...
...lure European tourists to the U.S., the airlines have set out to crush one of Europe's most cherished myths: that a traveler must have a gold-lined pocket to visit the U.S. So far, KLM has done most of the dragon slaying. Its agents are pushing a clever little booklet called Een Handige Budget-Baedeker. To potential travelers the Budget-Baedeker gives helpful tips on where to find bargains in New York-Woolworth's, Klein's on Union Square, Masters discount house, and Ohrbach's ("copies of haute couture...