Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test cases through the local courts: it should. Nor is it to say that the U.S. Justice Department has been diligent in prosecuting violations of civil rights: it has not. Nor is it to argue that the President has exhibited the warm creative leadership that he could so effectively focus upon the national Negro problem: his leadership in this regard has been virtually nil. But what we do say, and what we have tried to show by various case studies in this special supplement, is that the nation's racial wounds can be bound up without malice and with success...
...woods near Saratoga Springs, Playwright Thornton Wilder sat composing a eulogy to the late Thomas Mann. As he wrote, a small balding man, quiet and sharp-eyed as a young deer, moved among the trees, observing and pausing to focus his Leica. The click of the shutter among the bird sounds and leaf rustles was inaudible. Later Wilder wrote in the photographer's memento book: "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-not only a master photographer but a presence so tactful and soothing that I found myself working -really working-and working extra well while he went about his task...
...nation's Capitol has been a center of stormy artistic controversy ever since Amateur Architect Dr. William Thornton had to fend off the claims of his professional rival, Stephen Hallet, to get the credit for his 1793 plan. Last week it was once again the focus of debate. At issue this time: a $12 million appropriation voted by the House to start remodeling the east facade (plus another $28.5 million to remodel the two congressional office buildings and begin building a third...
Unlike other undergraduate activities, debating, by necessity, predicates an absence of publicity. Once the focus of a good deal of student interest, most home debates today draw few if any spectators. Where Sanders was occasionally filled for one of the annual Triangular Debates with Yale and Princeton, the Ames Courtroom last Friday night held no more than 100 spectators. "Today, people can read about the great question of the day, or listen over the raido, more easily than they could in 1900," one student explained. "But while an audience would be good for the ego, it isn't necessary...
...formal debate, reminiscent of years when debating was the focus of University interest, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Robert M. O'Neil '56, Jared M. Diamond '58, and David P. Bryden '57 will meet Edward Golden, Princeton '58, John Lewis, '58, and Tom Farar '57. Harvard will support the negative of the topic, Resolved: "That this House Approves President Eisenhower's Solution to the Farm Problem...