Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to go over the roster of these courses carefully and decide whether the "History of the Book," "Narrative in Oral Literature," or "The Planets: Their Environments and Inhabitants" should be permitted to remain on a list of courses that can satisfy the General Education requirement. If the focus of the General Education program is to be shifted towards the upper level and towards the junior and senior years, it would be foolish to rush into the new program with a selection of courses which were not designed for the purpose they will now be asked to fulfill...
...increasingly computerized environment." As he takes shape in Antes' oils, man is consistently deformed, his body pudgy with baby fat, a spineless creature whose torso is nonexistent. At times he has a single eye that seems to see too much, at other times even three cannot focus on reality. But, insists Antes, "I am trying to make man perfect again, attempting to take him again into the center, rediscovering him." Strangely, it works, for out from under the brilliant artistic device crawls a human being not merely fascinating but often touching...
...Lowell Lecture Hall discussion reflects the newest phase of the government-university debate, in which the focus has shifted from the strategy of guerilla war to the faults of American politics and policy. Although this focus is closer to the roots of the disease, it is likely to raise problems more intractable yet more in need of solution than those of Vietnam...
...ated like a struck gong Then the three Playboys chimed in with a shivering "Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa" Enter a rampaging electric organ, a cascade of tambourines, an explosion of drums ... But wait. Where was all this sound coming from? And Singer Lewis-his lips seemed out of focus...
Titan with Warts. What has been badly needed to give form and focus to the Goethe revival is an important new biography, and Critic Richard Friedenthal has now provided it. In his Goethe (World; $8.50), a best seller in German and the first major book about Goethe to be published in English in nearly 20 years, he takes a hard cold look at the legendary giant of German literature, and he sees, along with a startling collection of warts, a man of universal genius...