Word: focalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried walking two blocks toward the focal point of the riot, but "the eyes of the residents on their front porches seemed to radiate hatred. It was like walking through a corridor of statues with the kind of eyes that follow you wherever you go. Later I grew more confident and strolled the area with impunity-more or less. I made about seven trips among the rioters, perhaps to reassure myself that all this was really happening...
...star of the film is clearly the chorus; and the whole production seems to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sing beautifully together and are right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, is unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert is the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapts most effectively the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
...Having discovered myself cited by you as an example of "this curious double standard" on Viet Nam and the Middle East [June 9], may I point out that Viet Nam and the Middle East are two different situations, the former marginal, the latter focal to our interests...
Strange Sounds. The focal point of Goodman's house, however, remains the music studio. He practices almost daily, plays for friends at parties, and often works on classical pieces with his daughter Rachel, 24, an accomplished amateur pianist. "After all," he says, "this is my life-music. I couldn't be content any other way." He even seems to have made his peace with the rapid evolution of jazz styles away from swing in the past two decades. Not that he approves. "I can understand the modern in classical music-in a composer like Bartok, for example...
...university as a base for power. The campus is the chosen focal point for activity. It is the place to arouse interest, recruit members, raise money, organize action, and from which to launch attacks on chosen targets. The trade union, the political party, and established voluntary organizations are no longer viewed as generally useful vehicles. Politics, in particular, takes too long and involves compromise...