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...President must have so many focal points of concern that no one problem can occupy him for too long," he said in 1963. The CRIMSON that year commented: "Pusey has adjusted gradually to these diversified pressures, but adjustment has forced him to abandon the intimate contact with college policy, faculty, and student body which he had at Lawrence...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Pusey Announces Decision To Retire in June of 1971 | 2/17/1970 | See Source »

Retain the concept of concentration as "the focal point for a student's ... educational experience," but allow students to devise (in consultation with an appropriate member of the faculty) their own concentration programs centered on either a discipline or a "problem ... or broad question...

Author: By Mitchell S. Fisherman, | Title: Curriculum Reform at Brown: Part II | 1/17/1970 | See Source »

...dream, apparently, had been to produce, as a sequel to My Fair Lady, a My Fabulous Lady based on the life and loves of Gabrielle Chanel, the great Parisian designer who is now a fairly fabulous 86 years old. What went wrong? The initial concept was wrong. The focal point of the fashion business is a dress. In and of itself, a dress is not dramatic. A parade of animated mannequins such as one gets in Coco does not make dresses dramatic either. A group of women milling about onstage always looks rather like a herd, and that is scarcely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: All Work and No Play | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Although there are in all fifteen OBU demands, they all center around three focal issues-the issues that the University has been least willing to deal with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Occupation | 12/9/1969 | See Source »

THERE is little in the life of William Laws Calley Jr., whom G.I.s of his old Americal Division now refer to noncommittally as "that lieutenant." to suggest that he would become the focal figure of controversy in so horrible a nightmare as the My Lai massacre. To his hometown friends in Miami, he has always been known as "Rusty," for his reddish-tinged brown hair. He was born in Miami 26 years ago, and grew up with his three sisters in a two-story stucco house in the city's northeastern section. Mrs. Arnold Minkley, who lived across the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Average American Boy? | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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