Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mizener has a limited objective: to relate Fitzgerald's life to his writing. The book, as a result, wavers at the border between criticism and biography. As criticism it is inadequate, for its standards are too biographical; as biography it suffers equally, for its focus is too literary...
...gets exaggeration that completely warps the real picture and expresses contempt for pig meat, rather than sharpening the focus on the trusts that have forced its price so high ... It is not the slightness of the Piggie story that is involved here, or even the price of meat, but rather the critical responsibility to the working class of a Marxist writer...
...standard will force Harvard to give up the bulk of its rivals, nor that Crimson teams will become perpetual doormats. We feel that an honest admissions policy can give us an adequate proportion of victories. We believe that Harvard still commands enough respect to serve as the focus of a new league, if the Administration and the alumni work together to make the new policy effective. The CRIMSON, like everyone else, is tired of football commercialism, and we feel that Harvard can point...
...Britain, angry and unbowed, lurched along through the Great Muddle. The nation had survived far greater crises. The unique feature of this one was that it seemed to have no focus, no great principle at stake, no end. If the clamor got too great, Attlee could always jettison Webb and agree to the Argentine meat price. Socialism was an admirable instrument for rationing discomfort and deadening pain...
...History department so much that he wrote a magazine article on it last month. The preference for safe plodding rather than expression of unpopular opinions has unfortunately gone far beyond the college stage and is currently plaguing everyone from President Truman down. And alumni reunions have become the focus of college thought in many cases because alumni often have money and most colleges badly need money today...