Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed 47 Workshop whose pin pose was to produce the plays written in 47 and 47a and discussed in the 47 Club. While the 47 Club had been strictly female, the girls invited Harvard men to participate in the new project, and soon the Workshop was the focus of all Harvard theater...
...presented on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6, from 5 to 6 (E.S.T.), on one of the biggest television hookups ever arranged. Called "The Man of the Year Revue," it will originate from NBC-TV in New York and will be telecast over more than a hundred stations. The program will focus on the newsmakers of this year, the statesmen, scientists, soldiers, the heroes and the villains who made the good and bad news, the history and gossip of 1953. In addition, the Man of the Year Revue program will bring before the television cameras top Broadway stars and other newsworthy figures...
...enthusiastic support for the project, is welcome news not only to local theatre groups but to everyone interested in the development of Harvard. For, as Massachusetts Hall agrees, there are few demands among the University's many needs more important than a theatre which would act as a focus for undergraduate dramatic activity...
...Only one element of strength is lacking to give the Radcliffe Graduate School the full stature of greatness," Jordan said. "It requires a physical center: there is no focus which is so necessary for the growth of cultivated human beings...
However great their contribution to pedagogy, the specialists are slowly throttling the intellectual content of the schools. "As a result . . . the schools are being more and more divorced from the basic disciplines of science and learning. Intellectual training, once the unquestioned focus of every educational effort, has been pushed out to the periphery of the public school program. Into the vacuum have rushed the 'experts' from state departments and colleges of education: the curriculum doctors, the integrators, the life-adjusters-the specialists in know-how rather than knowledge...