Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Action Center, which now has five full-time workers and ten part-time student volunteers, will expand three existing programs to focus local attention on the problems of urban redevelopment, welfare, and schools...
...shift is partly the result of criticism-from inside the schools and from such groups as the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corp. and the Committee for Economic Development-aimed at low-caliber students, inadequate facilities and excessive focus on narrow vocational training. It has also been speeded by rapid changes in the business world, which has been made vastly more complex, innovation-minded and psychology-conscious by the onrush of technology. "We can never win a race to educate for the latest thing," Carnegie Corp. President John W. Gardner told the deans last week. "Knowledge and skill that is avant...
Somebody could write a fabulous play about Benedict Arnold. James A. Culpepper hasn't. Treason at West Point never gets beyond exposition and tactics. The characters rarely come alive; some of them never even come into focus. The cast does a fine job with what they have, but the show's a bore...
Quincy House tries music and movies. The movies work, when they're in focus. A montage of selected orgy scenes appears on the screen in one scene break, a collection of sneers from great art in the next. Einar Anderson's score seems a little makeshift, and the orchestra under-rehearsed. But the mock-heroic music often plays against the everpresent ranting on the stage with satiric punch, and covers up some of the still-shaky set changes...
...McDougall's letter in the CRIMSON of April 28 clarifies the image of Harvard civil rights and my reported asking for a "Right Focus on One Area." But the point isn't quite clear...