Word: focalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a city park. The city is now negotiating to keep the handsome Federal Building as a training center for high school dropouts and the New York State Pavilion as an all-purpose theater. Other permanent fixtures are the Hall of Science and the heliport, which will become the focal point for an eleven-acre...
...Attorney General's speech served as a focal point for the conference, which was for the first time devoted entirely to the subject of "The Student in Higher Education." Ten panel discussions focused attention on topics ranging from the student's academic freedom to his role in educational policy planning...
...hunch that the next big push after civil rights and poverty would be in the area of international affairs. I thought about the possibility of having a new kind of program with the breadth and depth of the civil rights movement. But the problem was to find a focal point...Where is the logic of the present policy most vulnerable? What in foreign affairs was the equivalent of a Mississippi lunch counter...
...humanity. The tempo and techniques vary from era to era, from continent to continent. And the nature of Communism changes. Whereas Moscow now shuns the perilous confrontations that so often brought the cold war to boiling point, Peking grows ever more militant. For both capitals of world Communism, the focal points of conflict have shifted from Europe to Africa, Latin America and-most notably-Southeast Asia, where the Johnson Administration last week solemnly committed the U.S. to what could be a prolonged and painful...
...neglected to include any mention of Zionism. Zionism is not a movement whose goal is to send vast sums of money overseas. It is, rather, a modern manifestation of the ancient messianic movement committed to the preservation and perpetuation of basic Jewish values and ideals, recognizing Israel as the focal point of the totality of Jewish living, a cultural center from which will come a renascence of the Jewish spirit...