Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shemanskys are too incredible. From the first page, they are fantastic, insufferable, sick; who can identify with a Shemansky? Can it be said, what's good for the Shemanskys is good for the U.S.A.? Simckes, like his Vossen Gleich, has an acute humans concern, but too limited a focus. Yet, within his unique realm, Simckes tells a grotesque and Rabelaisian tale that does create philosophic reverberations...
...Take Any More." But Paul found little respite at the Holy Sepulcher-a jumbled, decaying basilica that, like so many of the other holy places in Israel and Jordan, has throughout its history been the focus of countless jurisdictional squabbles among Roman Catholics, Orthodox, Copts and Armenians. Donning white liturgical vestments, the Pope celebrated Mass upon an austere portable altar set up near the place designated as the tomb in which Jesus' body lay between his death and Resurrection. The church, like the streets outside, was jammed to capacity...
JOHNNY FRIEDLAENDER-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. In marked similarity to his etchings, 15 of which are included in this show, the watercolors of one of Europe's best-known graphic artists are exquisite linear abstractions. Friedlaender's soft-focus shadings on old parchment, brightened by occasional glimmers of red and blue, reveal a fancy and poesy akin to Klee. Through...
...churchmen from 62 church bodies and 48 countries showed up to discuss the problems facing the spread of Christianity. Anglican Bishop John Sadiq summed up one of them: "Old non-Christian faiths have become renascent." M. M. Thomas of India pointed out another: a "secular ecumenism" that finds its focus not in Christ but in the brotherhood...
...succession would ever go beyond the Speaker, If he were ever elevated to the Presidency, the House would immediately elect a new Speaker, who would supersede the present pro tem of the Senate as next in line. Therefore most of the criticisms of the present order of succession focus on the several disadvantages of having the Speaker as the second man to succeed the President...