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...theme parks in the West. When Walt Disney opened Disneyland at Anaheim in 1955, the idea was that his fantasyland would be "a travel destination" at which visitors would spend whole weekends or vacations. Many families still do, but Disneyland, like Florida's Disney World, has become a focal point from which holidaymakers can radiate out to other parks, beaches, authentic historical scenes and myriad recreations ranging from surfing and sailing to deep-sea fishing and ballooning. Thus a family with a week or even two might consider one of these four vacation clusters...
...Atlanta, one of the newest, swingingest hotpots is Penrod's, a lushly decorated, laid-back "environment." There are also The Foxhunt and The Casbah. For the older, squarer set, there is Burl's Joint, the focal point of a new restaurant opened in May by Burt Reynolds. Inside the huge Omni Hotel complex, Burt's is designed like a Hollywood sound stage, with sets from Show Boat, the trolley from A Streetcar Named Desire and endless blowups of the owner's favorite actor. The sound is radio-oriented, with Sinatra...
...past year, a certain haze of orderly calm has descended upon the 77 Dunster Street offices of the Department of Afro-American Studies. The focal point of considerable controversy and internal dissension among concentrators and some faculty members for many years, the Afro department has experienced a relative cease-fire during the last twelve months--at least on the surface. Afro has begun to assume many features of a conventionally organized department: the introduction of general examinations planned for next year, the establishment of specific course requirements, and the cross-listing of department offerings in other sections of the course...
...plot emerge mainly through dialogue, backed up by simple, controlled description. Blatant authorial intrusions are rare. Like his Victorian predecessors, Storey remains outside his characters, looking in; he avoids interior monologues, allo ing the feelings of his characters to surface in their words and actions. Colin is the focal point of the novel--Mr. and Mrs. Saville are always referred to as "his father" and "his mother" even when the antecedent is unspecified--but Storey refuses to lose himself in a single point of view, preferring the role of a restrained omniscient narrator...
...trying to show Fox that students are not going to accept this sitting down," William S. Friedman '79, treasurer of the Mather House Council, said yesterday, adding "We're the focal point of the issue, but it isn't just us we're concerned about--we want breakfast at all 12 Houses...