Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School of Public Health, the University already has tremendous resources for work in international relations. But these facilities are scattered, and the work accomplished is largely done through uncoordinated, one-man research. What the committee visualizes is a center, like the Russian Research Center, which would bring to focus on a specific problem the talents of a team of researchers drawn from half a dozen different fields. Rarely, in international politics, is a problem confined to one particular area of study...
Brewster was referring to a passage in the recent report of the Faculty Commitee on the Behavioral Studies which found "expressed concern on the part of some members of the faculty lest the present first-year curriculum be too narrow and too technical in its focus...
...their first year, Law students must take four required full courses: Procedure, Property, Contracts, and Torts. The Committee's report said the Law School attempts to "supplant the often vague generalization of undergraduate learning with the case method's focus on rigorous logic and precise expression." Brewster said the School has not yet found any suggestion for a change that would not "weaken and dilute the rigors of legal analysis...
...comic invention, played with a cross-eyed, morning-after charm by a fine cast (Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre). On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan's burly piece of camereering along the docksides of Hoboken, had excellent photography, though the drama sometimes got out of emotional focus. But the meaning of it all came clear in Marlon Brando, who turned in what was surely the most capacious performance given by any actor during...
...trouble getting overcoats, and rich characters who keep predatory birds about the house are perhaps a bit too special to care much about. However, the reader will also sense that in all six stories something more important than bears, hawks and overcoats is being talked about. His feelings may focus on the sea story, Billy Budd. If he has seen the film The Caine Mutiny and read the novel, he may become aware that both stories are about the same sort of thing, but that Billy is a tragedy while The Caine Mutiny is a tempest in a large...