Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHILDREN AND OTHERS, by James Gould Cozzens. Many of the stories in this collection also concern a fashionable Eastern boarding school for boys, and if they come off less well, it is that they focus on the institution itself rather than the masters and boys. But Children and Others represents Cozzens at his most controlled, and therefore his best, and the writing is as precise as in Guard of Honor...
...masterpiece Dufy thought it to be? Its central focus, a dynamo rendered blueprint-style in all its 1937 grandeur, is sublimely anachronistic; its diversity makes it seem a collage of pages from a sketchbook; its pretentious setting heightens all its weaknesses. Somewhat ambiguously, the museum bills the mural as "the world's largest painting"; viewers go away feeling that they have seen the world's largest hand-painted billboard...
...course at the summer school, Education S-A-5, "The American School: Contemporary Issues in American Education," reflects his deep interest. Michael's focus, however, is slightly different than most educational debate of the present day. While the problems of America's big city school systems fascinate him, what naturally receives the greatest attention are the problems faced by suburban schools such as Evanston...
Durham School, which numbers no Zen adepts among its alumni, is the stern focus of many of the 17 stories that comprise James Gould Cozzens' latest book-his first in seven years and a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for August. The school, rather than the un-Salingerian types who attend it, is the real hero, and Cozzens deeply approves of the headmaster's speech above (which is delivered to a character named Smith...
Even if the rest of the cast were far worse than it is, it would be worth going to see Richard to see Philip Kerr in the title role. He moves beautifully. He can hold the audience with a gesture, and switch the focus of attention with a glance. He has devised a death scene--for I understand he staged it--which is a small ballet...