Word: focalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Onto the screen flashes a shiny red dot, which turns out to be a maraschino cherry, which turns out to sit atop a chocolate sundae, which turns out to be the focal point for a swirling phantasmagoria of color. All of which, it also turns out, is a 60-second videotape commercial for a venerable Manhattan-based restaurant chain. "The chocolate sundae," proclaims a credit line that rolls diagonally across the TV tube, was "photographed for Schrafft's by Andy Warhol...
...academic year, universities the world over will apparently continue to be focal points of alienation, disruption and dissent. Last week New York University grappled with the problems created by the presence of a black extremist on its staff; a number of U.S. university presidents were openly discussing how to handle the prospect of future campus disorders; and in France, an adventuresome Education Minister won legislative 'approval of reforms that might prevent a repetition of this spring's student rebellion...
...overt action against the regime. Their protest mainly takes the from of making jokes against the colonels, who allegedly lead lurid personal lives. A small number of pamphlets circulate around Athens but there is no real, well-organized opposition. No leader exists who can act as a focal point for resistance...
Essentially, Freedom. That book, and all of Solzhenitsyn's life and work, place him at the passionate focal point of the major issue that inflames dissent and frightens the men in the Kremlin today. The issue is Stalinism, the "past that is clawing to pieces our present days," as Soviet Writer Lydia Chukovskaya expressed it in a letter which circulated underground earlier this year...
...soon as its plans were made public 31 years ago, the $6,750,000 Garden State Arts Center near New Bruns wick became the pride of New Jersey. Focal point of it all was a 5,000-seat outdoor amphitheater designed by Edward Durell .Stone, 66, and to everyone's embarrassment, the very first performance in the craterlike theater was nearly washed out when a spring storm caused a flood backstage. Last week the rains came again during a performance of the Jeffrey Ballet, and once more Stone's crater flooded as the drains apparently failed to handle...