Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers by its elegance, it must appeal to a novelist for the neatly tailored setting it provides for any plot. Financially and socially secure, its inhabitants are free from drearier worries and can afford to find their problems solely on the intriguing plane of personal relationships. This is the focus of Love Is a Bridge, showing the barriers of pride, frustration, and selfishness which isolate one person from another. Separating each individual, Mr. Flood seems to say, there is a natural gap which only the warmth and understanding of love can bridge. Spanning twenty-five years, the novel finds Henry...
...Edward Steichen, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, who were to follow divergent paths. Steichen went on to become the first famed glamour photographer, with his work in the early 1930s for Vanity Fair, today is Curator of Photography at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Weston pioneered sharp-focus photography of places and things, and started a naturalistic school, of which the chief disciple is Ansel Adams, regarded as perhaps the finest landscape photographer today...
Regarding Harvard, Fox seems to have love-hate complex. He thinks the University is the greatest educational institution in the world. But he is convinced that its management has for years "lacked common sense," and made Harvard what he called in an editorial "the focus of infection from which the Communist poison has spread throughout the country...
...prepared speech, Smith went on that the college should focus on the individual student rather than the society in which he lives...
...continuity. First, under the capable direction of Robert Chapman and Mrs. Mary Howe, the lab could furnish a constant reservoir of trained actors and actresses from which undergraduate productions could draw. More important, however, is its great promise as a successor to the 47 Workshop, in providing a focus and inspiration to the now chaotic dramatic scene...