Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fault seems to be with the over-all focus. For as the horror of the situation itself fades into a war movie cliche--complete with goose-stepping, bombing and all the rest of it--as the beauty of Anne Frank's character dissolves into naughty cuteness, we are left with eight people who flirt, fight, and fret in a disappointingly usual way. The play managed, without ever seeming to strain, to suggest how sustained tension and continuous confinement would affect them, while the film injects these changes artificially...
...integration crisis faced (though far from finished), Hodges could focus state effort on the grim economic problem brought on by the sharp cut in farm employment. Watching over the nation's biggest farm population, Hodges knew that industrialization was an urgent necessity. But before he joined the platoon of Southern Governors wooing Yankee companies, Businessman Hodges spent three years getting his state in shape...
...mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels. For instance, I've always thought of a painting as a surface; painting it in one color made this very clear. Then I decided that looking at a painting should not require a special kind of focus like going to church. A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator...
...retirement of wide-traveling Secretary of State Dulles was almost certain to focus more attention on the Administration's other veteran of the diplomatic travelers' society: Vice President Richard Nixon, who has served as the President's effective personal ambassador in Asia (1956), Africa (1957), Latin America (1958) and Britain (1958). Last week President Eisenhower sharpened the focus by announcing that Nixon and wife Pat will go to Russia for three or four days in July to officiate at the opening of the $5,000,000 American National Exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park (TIME...
...directed at the Requiem is the prominence of the text, and the presence of several passages which do little more than declaim words, detracting from the musical interest and continuity. Since the text is not liturgical, but rather passages from the Bible chosen by the composer, he wishes to focus interest on it as well as on the music. But these are not always compatible ends, and the integrity of the musical parts suffers as a consequence...