Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that. A wide-angle lens can catch as many as ten dancers and eight singers in a single shot without having them trample each other or clutter the screen; the zoom-type lens moves from long shots to close-ups with a breathtaking rush and without loss of focus. With process shots (filmed backgrounds), Hobin can shoot scenes that look like Paris, Tokyo, the Taj Mahal or a Venetian canal...
Thus, neither the report nor its conclusions form a guide for administrative action, rather they serve only to focus attention on the most pressing short-range difficulties. This in itself is somewhat useful, but it is far less valuable than it should have been...
Griswold asserted that the Ivy League's unanimity "bespeaks not only a nation-wide revulsion of the corruption of inter-collegiate athletics but an earnest desire to free higher education from distractions and penalties and focus it upon its vital mission in a troubled world...
...shots of rolling green hills, played-out mining areas and savage slums. But the camera, with its realistic eye, can also confine and shackle. Though Cry, the Beloved, Country has much of the novel's passion, it has lost some of the poetry. The lens brings into harsh focus the artifices which trick out the theme yet cast little light on the problems of the dark continent...
There has been another problem interrelated with the dearth of tutorial which appeared almost as serious. During the past five years, the Dean's Office, the Houses, and the various departments have held power over different spheres of the undergraduate's life, so that there has been no one focus for his intellectual activity...