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...liberal arts curriculum coupled with a highly restricted campus life--succeeds in producing the type of man that the founders of the college desired, a man who will bring a disciplined mind and body to bear on the many problems facing an expanding South.The Chambers building (above) is the focal point of Davidson life. Administrative offices, a large auditorium, and various classrooms and laboratories are contained in the structure, built...
...Social Relations department has taken over a building at 9 Bow St., formerly used as housing space for married undergraduates. It will be used as a focal point for research in Social Relations...
...machine is the most effective in the U.S. Although Chicago's boss Jacob ("Jack") Arvey is himself not tainted with corruption, organized crime nourishes in Chicago. Republicans frequently charge that the underworld is protected by members of Arvey's organization. The Kefauver Senate committee called Chicago "a focal point for the activities of organized criminals...
Miss Sullavan's role is the focal point in the play's hierarchy of emotional maturity. She is caught between the Devil (her insistance upon viewing her unstable marital relations through the eyes of an insensitive society) and the Deep Blue Sea (or death, which she believes to be the only escape). The play opens with her attempted suicide and progresses through her relationships with her lover, her estranged husband, and an ex-doctor who ultimately proves to be her saviour. Though loosely constructed, the plot is not without tension and suspense. Mr. Rattigan's terrific seriousness accounts for much...
...conceded that the other world focal point, Europe, was progressing better, at least six countries have been trying to achieve an economic unity (Benelux, West Germany, Italy, and France...