Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tangled with a 15-year-old boy who refused all medical aid after getting a chicken bone caught in his throat. Just the mention of a doctor scared Denny out of his wits. After finally wooing Denny into the hospital and extracting the bone, Pediatrician Roth decided to focus on adolescents. He got help from his old training school, Children's Hospital in Boston, where Dr. James Roswell Gallagher set up the country's first teen-age clinic in 1952, now has four hospital floors serving 600 patients a month. With Gallagher's advice. Roth...
...calling life itself corrupt? In any case, not since Tennessee Williams' Camino Real has a new Broadway play conveyed so fanged and carniv orous a world. But where Williams traded in the very decadence and violence he seemed at war with, The Visit, whether or not philosophically in focus, never gets dramatically out of hand...
...clear that at least one reviewer is not very happy with either the fragments of William Palmer's novel "Coyahique," or Edgar de Bresson's story "Down There Where It's Beautiful." The fragments of the novel never achieve any coherence, nor do their baffling lack of focus suggest any very obvious truth about the South American revolution which they portray. De Bresson's story, on the other hand, is not a fragment, but rather an epitome of sickness, a suitable inside for the hideous color combination of the cover. It is not that the story is bad, but that...
...Criticism. In 1937 Ransom went to tiny, oak-sheltered Kenyon College (enrollment: 500) in Gambier, Ohio. Next month, a few weeks after his 70th birthday, he will retire from teaching. In the 21-year interval Kenyon has become a focus of literary ferment rivaled by few campuses...
Seniors would cheer alumni; alumni would raise a whoop for undergraduates. Round the track the graduates would march. In 1821 the Class of '18 disguised themselves as bottles of "home brew," in memorium, so to speak. The focus of interest had shifted slightly by 1937, and some alumni, dressed in Bavarian costumes, paraded with posters announcing they had "A Code in our Heads," or simply stating that the "Blue Eagle is a Yale Bird...