Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer of the paper distinguishes among three kinds of marches: marches with policy objectives (the March on Washington), marches to focus public opinion on less defined goals (the Selma March), and "those which primarily demonstrate the commitment and concern of the marchers" (traditional Easter peace-marches). Tomorrow's march is not the first kind, because there is no policy objective in the legislative sense, such as the Civil Rights Bill. It is not the second kind, because it has a longer-range objective than the temporary focusing of public opinion. It is the third kind: The marchers will simply...
...score is a modern patchwork, ranging from bouncy rural rhythms to streaks of dissonance, used most effectively in underlining Lizzie's mounting anxiety. But for the most part, it is unobtrusive by design. Says Beeson: "The whole focus is on the stage...
...minds of all, the castle is the symbol and focus for uneasy atavistic dreams of combat. Then the big guns begin to sound. Out of the falling snow, through a village straight out of a Breughel painting, comes the American army in headlong retreat, and the misfits of the 314th find themselves the only organized defense short of the Meuse. Bumbling and burlesquing the role of soldiers, they fight. For what? A confused dream, a bit of bread, a friend, a stone wall, a laugh...
...Focus on Direction...
...initial focus of the program would probably be "direction," which Levin cited as a subject of "tremendous academic possibilities...