Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Radical. The defense was unable to shake the story of any Government witness. But it tried to show the picture in an entirely different focus. One ex-Communist said that Box 1692 was not an exclusively Communist address; it was used, he said, by the organizers of a labor group. Another former TVAer described Remington as a half-baked young radical who affected old shoes tied together with strings and put-putted around Knoxville on a motorcycle. The portrait was of an earnest decrier of entrenched privilege...
...lines were written last spring when Shaw, seven years short of his target centenary and bored with old age, was to be seen stumping about Ayot Saint Lawrence with a contax camera. Neighbors watched him focus on the village show places. "That must be hard work, sir," said Postmistress Jisbella Lyth. Tiring, said Shaw. Last week the village had a chance to see Shaw's photographs. Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence (price one shilling)* went on sale in Mrs. Lyth's post-office shop...
...means nothing, another that it means "warm land." It is, indeed, a torrid jungle and mountain wilderness as big as California. Sparsely inhabited by fuzzy-wuzzy Melanesian cannibals and practically unexploited, it has been a Dutch colony the past 122 years. Last week Irian was also a hot focus of argument between its Dutch rulers and the bumptious young Republic of Indonesia...
This maze of committees and delegations works pretty well, but occasionally the Yale undergraduates really get aroused over something--say inadequate snow removal in front of Woolesley Hall--and then a clamor for a focus of student opinion goes...
Critic Wilson's erudition is considerable and he sometimes uses it irritatingly, but it also gives him a literary focus that few of his U.S. colleagues could control. Classics and Commercials is not for those who like to get comfortable with a detective story or a runaway bestseller, but if it were read seriously by those who flipped the pages for smut in Hecate County, U.S. literary taste might be raised a notch...