Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final half-hour of questions from the floor. Instead of a symmetrical, point-by-point exchange of attack and riposte, the discussion often became a kind of verbal Indian warfare, with the opponents sniping at each other from whatever cover was handy. But certain key points came sharply into focus...
...long ago, with an even larger focus, one of our European readers had this to say about TIME International...
...architecture of Michelangelo. The picture gains dramatic immediacy from the rhythm of its cutting, actors' voices offscreen, turning wagon wheels, clashing swords, such shots as clouds racing over a jutting tower. Lighting moves across the screen like an actor, the camera tilts awry at an assassination, the focus blurs as if with pain when Michelangelo's nose is smashed in a brawl...
...framing of a liturgy for corporate worship, or a set of retreat exercises, or instructions for private prayer." To the free church congregations, for whom sacramentalism or the priest's role is not central, old liturgical molds are as irrelevant as the "Gothic church, which was built to focus all upon the choir and ultimately upon the dramatic stage of the Mass table, where Christ is believed to be literally materialized and made present. But if we admit this irrelevancy, we have not yet found its equivalent...
Nearer to the Threshold. It is not likely, Professor Steere notes dryly, that the situation will be remedied by a "representative committee on Protestant symbols." "Only those who have felt the central fire of the molten sun can capture its radiance in symbols that will focus the longing of others. It will come out of deeply moved souls who have felt and known our need, our poverty...