Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revitalized language program can easily attract many undergraduates now fretting their way through narrow reading channels. But the benefits would not be for students alone. If language departments show their wares to Freshman beginners in a more favorable light, the thin ranks of their concentrators might grow along with a new student appreciation...
Society Iss Nix. At first, Waugh found, the comics were steeped in an atmosphere of "toughness, of the harsh life of bums and thugs." Once publishers got the idea that comics might attract millions of child readers, the strips were scrubbed up. Replacing the often cruel Yellow Kid were sweet Buster Brown, dreamy Little Nemo, merry Little Jimmy. The Katzenjammer Kids were mean moppets, but in their rebellion against grown-up conventions they were on the children's side. As the long-suffering Inspector said: "Mit dose kids, society...
...means revolutionary or even experimental in form like "Four Saints" or "Mother of Us All," but the music is exactly right--no more nor less--for its frightening story. Menotti is a composer who can be described only as appealing: his music uses modern devices, manages to attract the listener without letting him out of the grip of the opera in toto. He uses chiefly a semi-recitative style, but he proves conclusively his ability to write an aria with an exceptionally lovely song which he gives the daughter near the close of the first...
...species, the austere grey mullet, seems uninterested in parties. But Dr. Sasaki is not discouraged. He is planning to try colored lights, in hopes that the stepped-up allure will attract the grey mullet...
...Sure Hand of God is gamy enough to attract the censors. It has little to merit anyone else's attention...