Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students were shouting about was President Chung Hee Park's recent agreement with Japan settling the longstanding grievances between the two nations (TIME, April 2), including a new fishing pact that many Koreans consider excessively advantageous to the Japanese. And what soon gave the student uprising a special focus was the emergence of a "martyr," Tonggook University Student Kim Chung Bai, 21, who died of a skull fracture in the opening round of riots. Protest "mourning rallies" blossomed, and 100 Tonggook coeds solemnly paraded wearing black ribbons for their dead hero...
Another new focus of college politics is the battle against monopoly campus newspapers. At Rice it only takes the form of a letter from a sorority girl chiding the Thresher for not publishing anything about sororities. But the issue reaches larger proportions eleswhere. At Wisconsin, a Campus Newspaper Student Committee is investigating inequities in the Wisconsin Cardinal; at Berkeley an organization called Students for University Truth purchases space in the Daily Californian for vehement tirades against the newspaper...
...Harvard community--for example the excellent memorial issue on Perry Miller--to nearly limitless ones like this number on undergraduate education. Ambivalent about their audience and their contributors, the editors of the Review have never quite decided whether their magazine is distinctly a Harvard publication with a local focus and local writers or whether it is to be a Daedalus, j.g., commenting in depth on Important Topics for Our Time...
...jazz musician. Rivers has carried much of this facility over into his painting. As jazz will use parts of a familiar tune to take off for bluer skies, Rivers is content to borrow bits of the old masters or leave parts of his painting unfinished and out of focus. Sometimes he will simply jot down on the canvas notations to color an area ocher or blue and then not bother coloring it. By this, he is leaving hints at the process of art as a form of living improvisation...
Another difficulty is that of finding meaningful issues on which to focus. Organizing Southern Negroes is in many Ways much easier, because there is a readily identifiable enemy, an easily defined problem, and a built-in unity in race. But the problem of poverty is much more diffuse; there is no single enemy, no single cure. How can better garbage collection be related to a larger vision of a better society...