Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real focus of the commission's interest, however, was its ambitious attempt to come up with a universally acceptable set of "principles, institutions and procedures . . . to protect the individual from arbitrary government and to enable him to enjoy the dignity of man." Right at the start, the jurists' qualifications for this job were challenged by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, himself a onetime barrister-at-law of London's Inner Temple. India is bothered by the setting up of military dictatorships all over Southeast Asia; it is itself a democracy, but does not scruple...
Perhaps significantly, the grimly bizarre comedy is Williams' first play to be produced since he abandoned his well-advertised long-term lease on the psychiatrist's couch. Upbeat only in comparison to his other plays, Period nevertheless glows with several scenes of gentle, off-focus humor, as when the two men boozily dream of raising buffalo (a "dignified beast") to rent out to producers of TV westerns. And if the play was a surprise to Miami theatergoers (who may be the only ones to see it; Williams is still undecided about taking it to Broadway...
...disciplined political outfit to emerge in Iraq's political chaos. They have infiltrated the police. To a lesser extent, they have penetrated the higher echelons of government and the army. At least one ranking official, Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubah, talks like a Communist (he calls Red China the "focus of intellectual and spiritual enlightenment in our contemporary world"). The Communists control propaganda, dictating the tone of all Baghdad newspapers. They also control the streets, as last week's events in Baghdad showed. Pictures of Khrushchev have now begun to appear in windows beside those of Kassem...
...works, says Garriott, is that the satellite broadcasts its signal in all directions. Some of the waves pass around the earth, just as water flows around a stone. Meeting on the opposite side, they come to a sort of focus at the point on the earth that is farthest from the satellite. There they reinforce each other enough to be picked up by listeners below...
...snowy veil that abstraction has cast over almost the whole landscape of art has proved too chill, and they felt the need for a thaw, for seeing earth again. Both Dali and Picasso were trying to bring Velásquez's illusion-making genius into a new, dreamlike focus, distorting the original (as dreams do) by a breaking-up and jumbling-together process. Dali calls this "disassociation." Says Dali: "The impressionists made disassociation of light. The cubists made disassociation of forms. The surrealists made disassociation of ideas. In the future it will come together and be painting...