Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drama. But Playwright Anderson is even more responsible. He has twisted Plato's Socrates into a symbol, thrust him into strange company, shown him off like a Hellenic quiz kid and, at moments, with quite unpoetic license, has wrenched him completely out of character and history out of focus...
...resolution, but as yet that has not materialized. Another question is that of student waiters in place of the present hired help in the eating clubs. Both problems to Princetonians are of the utmost importance as, in addition to their importance on week-ends, the clubs are the focus of everyday life at the college...
Princeton's famous cannon on the green behind Nassau Hall is another focus point for annual Tiger traditions. It is here every spring that the senior class holds its "horsing" class day exercises. In this ceremony all seniors gather in a group and while smoking clay pipes, make fun of the deans. At one time or another the senior representatives have started off around Nassau Hall with the deans on piggy back, but come round the other corner riding their masters...
...method is as difficult as his meaning. Readers of Fry's play have time to wrestle with both, but audiences do not. The play's shifting focus makes for a confusing psychological kaleidoscope rather than any clear philosophic light. And even at its soberest, Fry's seems a gift better suited to violin cadenzas than sustained organ music, to ladies who, in the end, are not for burning than to men actually thrust into the fiery furnace...
Warning that European countries must be allowed to choose their own form of government, he told a Business School Student Association forum that America must focus its campaign on "freedom of the individual" but "should not try to force a way of life upon peoples living under entirely different circumstances...