Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future leaders of our economic system. But to say, in effect, that the Business School is the best in the country is not necessarily to say that it is good enough. American business in the next 25 years is going to face new and perplexing problems that focus upon its responsibilities in a world society, and if we now proceed to question whether the Business School is providing a framework adequate to meeting these new problems it is not because we think the Business School is bad (that would indeed be foolish), but because it could be so much better...
Behind Small War on Murray Hill lies the faint shadow of a great war all over the world that had colored Sherwood's thinking and that gives his play, at moments, a certain pensive grace. But it has given it neither dramatic fiber nor intellectual focus. Offering well-turned prose rather than vivacious dialogue, Small War is too reflective for light comedy, yet it is not nearly stimulating enough for a comedy of ideas...
...first two shibboleths are doctrinaire battle cries, but the third is the aim of the economist whose new focus for socialism is to prevent waste in human and material resources and strengthen Britain's economic health. This almost bureaucratic concern for efficiency has occasionally severed Gaitskell from his party's traditional concern for expanding social services. His long battle with Bevan, for example, began when, as Chancellor, Gaitskell instituted small charges for spectacles and false teeth in Britain's free health services. Since then, some of his Socialist opponents have professed that they see little difference between the economic policies...
Like most of the other clubs, the Harvard Club of New York is not merely an alumni club. While it does fulfill the normal functions of an alumni organization, and has recently extended its work in this area, it serves as a social focus for Harvard men who live in and visit the City. This is mainly because it has its own large clubhouse...
...these old-hat tricks were cleverly combined by Playwright N. Richard Nash in The Rainmaker, a pleasant bit of focus-pocus that scored high on TV, and then ran for 3½ months on Broadway during the 1954-55 season. Sold to Hollywood for $350,000, the play has now been made into one of the most warmly appealing romantic comedies of the season...