Word: focalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something that did not happen: the failure of the Cabinet to pass a bill that would at last grant a measure of religious freedom to Spain's tiny non-Catholic minority. The reason that the non-passage caused such a furor is that the religion issue is the focal point of a struggle between government factions about how fast and how far Spain's new trend toward liberalization should...
Rejecting the idea that the Vietnamese war could become the focal point of the meeting, Feltenstein said that she hoped that a "new perspective on foreign policy" would emerge...
...focal point of the tour is the Oct. 24-25 Manila meeting that will bring together Johnson and six Asian heads of government for talks on the Viet Nam war. The objective, the President told his news conference last week, is to "give an opportunity for the leaders of the men who are committed to battle in Viet Nam to meet and explore ways of finding peace, and for bringing an end to the conflict and for making that area of the world prosperous and peaceful in the years to come...
...star of the film was clearly the chorus; and the whole production seemed to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sang beautifully together and were 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, was unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert was the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapted most effectively the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
...ANGRY VOICES OF WATTS: AN NBC NEWS INQUIRY (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Budd Schulberg's writers' workshop for young Negroes in Watts (TIME, July 22) is the focal point for this report, which will include poems, essays and short stories written by Schulberg's students...