Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slight, wiry, North Carolina-born painter named Kenneth Noland, 45, have been vehemently praised and just as savagely dissected in art magazines, while remaining relatively unappreciated by the general museum going public. The reason is that Noland's paintings, from the time he first began to attract attention with his "target" canvases of 1957, have remained icily symmetrical, uncompromisingly abstract, and thus seemingly impersonal. The debate has raged over whether (as his foes charged) they are merely decorative, or whether (as his friends claimed) they are simply so difficult that most people do not bother to grapple with them...
...famous race used to attract only 200 runners each year, but the recent jogging craze has caused applications to mushroom, and this year Chairman Will Clooney encouraged only those who felt they could finish within four hours to enter...
...solve Seymour's problem of "how to give 7,500 employees in 55 offices around the world the idea of a real stake" in the firm's annual gross. J.W.T. will be able to issue more generous stock options, which U.S. firms find are increasingly necessary to attract and keep creative people...
...with the right name. A real memory job.' " Personal reporting is New York's forte, but it has other assets as well-a young, eager staff, a fresh appearance, competent critics of the arts, and the high visibility in the nation's writing capital needed to attract both top freelancers and talented newcomers...
Most of the meetings were small, failing to attract even half the student-faculty population of their House. But Quincy and Eliot--both of which lined up with the Mem Church group--came close to a fifty per cent figure with about 200 people in both cases. Kirkland's discussion drew only about 70 students and faculty, and Radcliffe's North House only...