Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holmes produces an embarrassing result--the play is often ridiculous. Trying to show veneration for Doyle's famous characters, the producers have made the play a self-conscious period piece, with actors delivering Victorian phrases with an earnest flamboyance better suited to East Lynne. Efforts to maintain action and focus interest on the stage are even more lamentable. The enormous cast keeps the stage constantly cluttered, particularly since some of the sets have at least four doors or windows which spew forth actors from time to time. Two of the sets, the Baker Street flat and a mountain chalet...
...this stake in the last few decades. The Divinity School, natural focus for religious thought, has fallen behind the other Graduate Schools, both in funds and leadership in its field. Religious activity in the entire University has suffered from the peculiar attitude of those students and professors whose notable tolerance toward diversity and dissent does not seem to extend to religion...
...rise of the U.S. to world leadership since 1941 has made the Secretary of State a focus for the hopes, fears and frustrations of hundreds of millions of people. No man could be more relaxed and at home in this awesome job than John Foster Dulles. He spent his youth under the shadow of grandfather John Foster, a Secretary of State to Benjamin Harrison, and uncle Robert Lansing, Secretary of State to Woodrow Wilson. It is quite possible that John Foster Dulles is the only American who, since boyhood, has dreamed of becoming U.S. Secretary of State...
...will focus on basic techniques of diction and pantomime. Chapman said he and Mrs. Howe would spend two hours a week in acting instruction. Students will be asked to spend at least two other hours a week, probably divided between fencing and ballet instruction and memory work for the acting classes...
...short sketches, most of them only a page or so in length. Out of these hundreds of fragments, a world takes shape, peopled, according to the author's own count, by no less than 160 characters. None of the characters holds a central role. They first come into focus in a shabby cafe, and are followed with an artful candid camera about the wintry city as they hunger for food or affection and disclose, in commonplace words and gestures, the misery that grips most of them. The resulting snapshots go deeper than a surface image: ¶The little flamenco...