Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court's reliance on social science books instead of law books in its desegregation decision has disturbed many lawyers far more friendly to integration than string-tied Southerner Atwell. But the Dallas case brought into focus the question of whether a lower court judge can nullify a Supreme Court decision simply because he does not happen to agree with it. Judge Atwell's ruling is sure to be appealed and almost as certain to be reversed. Nevertheless, the processes of appeal take time-and Judge William Hawley Atwell has singlehanded staved off integration in Dallas...
...from the drunk were quickly joined by habitues of the Pod Jeleniem and Pod Gryfem bars and the Centralna and Magnolia cafes. Soon the Aleja Wojska Polskiego was crowded with 2,000 grim, destruction-bent Stettiners. Out of the intense anti-Soviet feeling that floods Poland today came a focus for their violence: Stettin's Soviet consulate. Soon the mob had broken into that building, wrecked and looted its contents. Only when the Stettin Communist Party committee called in sober-minded shipyard workers, students and local militiamen were the rioters brought to order...
...self-improvement steps (sample: "[We] admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs") and became an enthusiastic convert, Ann found her life was losing what meaning it had held before. Playing nursemaid to a drunk had been a fulltime responsibility, the focus of her existence, but Ed's new purpose all but left her out in the cold. Where once Ed had been out drinking with his cronies, now he was sitting up nights with new cronies, helping to keep them from drinking. "I was suddenly jealous of Ed," she says...
Instead of concentrating on the narration of an improbable stream of consciousness, Guthrie might better focus on the scene in which his characters act. This is a book about a rancher, yet one learns nothing about ranching. The reader also misses the lonely magnificence of the land, which grips its inhabitants so profoundly. It is almost as if Guthrie has never traveled through some of the country about which he writes...
...everyone else. The great problem is getting him on paper-and in modern dress, recognizing that business has changed from the freebooting days of the tycoon. What fiction now needs, suggests Chase Manhattan Bank Economist Robert A. Kavesh in a survey of current business fiction, is a "greater focus on the corporation itself and more particularly on the executives who govern collectively. No longer the villain of the piece, the businessman may appear in a variety of roles more adequately reflecting the range and variety of personalities that exist in the business world...