Word: focalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money of the late Adolphus Busch of St. Louis and the late George Ehret of Manhattan poured freely in to establish Deutsches Haus. It was intended to be a focal point of German culture at Columbia and in Manhattan. But German culture, like Wagner operas at the Metro politan Opera House, disappeared from Manhattan during the War. Only last week did this last War-bred taboo disappear from Columbia...
...wore at dance festivals the plunder of there unguarded trade routes. The stadium seems, however, somewhat more than a link between the varied ages and concession to the gregarious instinct. It is for those Americans who have diminished interest in the ordained issues of politics and ecclesiastics, a necessary focal center, necessary because it provides an opportunity for arrogant partisanship and an actual uncertainty as to the outcome of a pre-arranged contest. Rarely in an era of corner-pools and Wall Street cabals can anything but a football game present Chance unhandcuffed...
...method of selecting men is the focal point for discussion of the House plan. No more specific announcement of the University's policy on this point has been announced than that "selection of the members of the three upper classes who will occupy the first dormitory unit will be made by the University authorities, and will be of necessity more or less arbitrary." The report of the Student Council's committee will be closely watched for recommendations on this problem. From the plan's present artificial cross-sectioning Harvard can afford to sacrifice a good deal of the appearance...
Quivering Jewish ire last week faced suave Anglo-Saxon aplomb in the Casino at Deauville, France, focal point of international folly...
...mutual confession and "washing out"), sex is the pièce de résistance. Mr. Buchman and his assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges, full of relief at finding so plain a focal point for their self-betterment ambitions or so simple a seeming cause for all their adolescent agonies, succumb readily to the "spiritual surgery" which follows this easy diagnosis...