Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to make someone who had not read the play think it a comedy--and not a very good one at that. Director Donald Mullin has chosen to deemphasize all that is grim about the play--which is precisely the element that makes it Congreve's masterpeice--and to focus on the humor. Unfortunately the humor falls flat...
Bernays said last night that the Committee would focus its efforts on getting the state legislature in 1965 to reverse its 1962 decision ordering the construction of three underpasses along the tree-lined parkway. The Committee will attempt to mobilize public opinion in areas outside Greater Boston, and thus to bring pressure to bear on the legislators from these areas to vote for repeal...
...schools of painting flourish under anxiety and affluence," and New York has both. But Manhattan Critic Harold Rosenberg argues that on balance, "the concept of a world art capital is obsolete. Art flourishes in New York because New York is a kind of global city, a kind of momentary focus of global art which exists everywhere. There are historical analogies to show that there have been places where everything was working and suddenly all the life went out of it. 'The wind bloweth where it listeth.' We can't make predictions about inner qualities...
...scientists and educators who will work on the projects will focus first on studying the available material, and then creating new illustrative material, such as slides, demonstration equipment, and movies...
...previous Dokumentas, in 1955 and 1959, had shown what Teutonic seriousness could do to fuse, focus and interpret significant modern art trends. The new show, which will go on for 100 days, may be the most important European art exhibition of the decade...