Word: focalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BARBADOS. This island, where many British sun worshipers have built winter houses, is the latest focal point of the international set. And the latest focal point of Barbados is Sandy Lane, a hotel built two years ago by English-born Manhattan Socialite Ronald Tree, whose wife, Marietta, is U.S. Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. There is nothing sandy about Sandy Lane; Millionaire Tree, who has built a handsome Palladian house in Barbados, spared no expense in building and furnishing his hotel. Jet-setters have been flocking there; its 100 beds are currently booked through mid-March...
...should like to thank you for opening the columns of TIME for an extremely well-written presentation of the Danish press and for choosing the Berlingske Tidende as a focal point. We have evidence from many parts of Europe showing that the article [Jan. 4] has been widely read. It has given us confidence to tackle the next 214 years, even if it will necessarily mean a change of editors...
...foretaste of doom is Montmartre's Moulin Rouge, soon to make way for a supermarket unless sentimental Parisians can block its sale. Built in 1889 as a dance hall for Paris' deliciously depraved demimonde, it subsequently became a cabaret, vaudeville house, cinema, and a focal point for "generations" of wide-eyed tourists. Its raffish denizens were immortalized by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the unhappy dwarf who turned poster drawing into a fine...
Both high-and low-altitude photo work have improved spectacularly since World Har II. Cameras that work at 20-mile altitudes-up where the U-2 flies-have 36 in.-100 in. focal lengths that turn their lenses into virtual telescopes. Some of them swing from side to side, reaching both horizons. But though the pictures show surprising clarity, their scale is still too small to illuminate fine details of objects on the ground. Clouds are another frustrating disadvantage; over humid Cuba they often spoil the view. High-Utitude photography serves best for surveying large areas that cannot be reached...
...build a giant telescope with a focal length of 300 ft.? Any such mammoth construction high on an exposed peak would surely be swayed by winds, would tremble with the earth's least vibration. The cumbersome structure could hardly serve for delicate solar observations. The astronomers solved that problem by digging down, not building...