Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these conclusions are the focus of world attention, they must also be the focus of American attention on this day before a critical national election. This is the time for new insights, new courage, new intelligence--in short, new leadership--by the American President. For these reasons, we once again reaffirm our support for Adlai Stevenson for the most important office in the world...
...Director Jean Cassou fired off an urgent telegram, then flew to Mexico City to see for himself. One Californian sent in his $4,000 check for one painting, a leader of Ft. Worth's oiligarchy reserved another four paintings, and U.S. museums hurried to get in bids. Focus of all the excitement: Mexican Muralist and Painter Rufino Tamayo, 56, today hailed in his own land as Mexico's modernist número...
...characters in the film are adept at trampling upon each other's feelings, they are not, for this reason, more human. The play was about people--as Anderson said, "It is a play about the loneliness of the individual." With the movie, however, the focus shifts from the loneliness of individuals to the prejudices of a group. The housemaster, as played--mostly in grunts--by Leif Erickson, does not come out as a person, he is rather a symbol of the exaggerated masculinity whose persecution Tom suffers. With the film's emphasis on the "problem" rather than the people...
...discovered, had been hired since 1953. When this information was made public, the Administration hastily ceased its allegations but never offered to correct its misleading statements. In this context, the "numbers game" seems to have been a calculated attempt to keep the issue of Communists in government at the focus of political debate, rather than to remove subversion from national concern...
...program for the defense of academic freedom now seems clearer than at any time in the recent past. No longer need attention focus so exclusively on court cases, although cases still in progress must be fought vigorously and new victims defended. But now, while there is a lull, for whatever reason, in the attack on academic freedom, major attention should be turned to securing the repeal and withdrawal of restrictive statutes and regulations, the cloak of due process under which the attackers of academic freedom operate. The best way to achieve this would seem to be for liberals to develop...