Word: focal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worried that New Orleans will become another Houston, big, ugly, impersonal, rich, obsessed with growth; and those who are worried that it will become another Savannah, old, genfeel, shabby, and dying. The two groups are constantly at war and their battles have for the last decade been the focal point of the intellectual life of the city; each claims to want economic growth within the framework of historic preservation, but in their hearts each seems to see the two forces, growth and preservation, as mutually exclusive. Thus the growth forces are always dreaming up new projects and tying to implement...
...prefers to talk about this movement--"an attack at the very quality of a group of people," he calls it--in terms of America rather than of Harvard. And for Leonard its focal point came last year in the DeFunis vs. Odegaard case, when a white man sued the University of Washington Law school for "reverse discrimination"--admitting blacks who he charged were less qualified than...
...just turned 40, discovered that "I can't do it as a solo," and that a great fall's pain is intense. "I lost it all," he says. "The way the act was constructed-not just the way it came about-Cher was the focal point. I never considered it a disadvantage because the act was a smash. But a straight man is a straight man is a straight man ..." A current girl friend, a 19-year-old Cal State psychology student named Ora Renet, adds: "Of course he's bewildered; someone has stepped on his sand...
...speech. From the red, white and blue bannered stage, James Meredith establishes the conference's tone. "This is a great opportunity to establish what the American consciousness is." And a massive, pro-busing march on May 17 proposed by Thomas Atkins, the head of NAACP in Boston, is the focal point of the conference...
...Inventive bit of programming, a Mozart chamber work, the Clarinet Quintet, was also performed. Featured clarinetist David Kass was dazzling both technically and interpretively. With incredible breath control and unwaveringly beautiful tone, he gave the quintet a riveting emotional focal point. He was assisted by a fine string quartet with HRO concerto competition winner Lynn Chang as first violinist. Their sound was well blended, and if a lack of sensitivity to the light-hearted humor of the last two movements ended the piece on a dry note, the performance as a whole showed a unity and sincerity of interpretation...