Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on the crisis over ROTC [March 7] put the matter squarely in focus. The military has become the scapegoat for many of our social ills. And the converse is true: our present military system has been virtually absolved in areas where it has perpetrated the most vicious harm-notably, conscription...
Positive: Aspiring, curious, nature-loving, athletic Negative: Discourteous, lacks focus Career: Lawyer, publisher, traveler
...loose patchwork of schoolboy fantasies for its plot. The film opens at the beginning of another term at an English boarding school. All is noise and confusion as the old boys greet each other and the new ones, called "scum," struggle to find their room assignments. Gradually, the focus narrows to a group of three upperclassmen (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) who are restless, cynical and chafing under the discipline of the house whips. They spend a lot of their time sneaking swigs of vodka and planning romantic acts of rebellion. After a particularly strenuous caning by the head...
...Conspiracy will focus its initial efforts on getting support from the Harvard community. "Petitions are going out today," Gagarin said. "We'd like to be able to run another ad next week--with 500 signatures on it. Despite everything King Collins had against him, he made a lot happen. A group of us could do a lot more...
...presidential election might have served to bring the issue into focus earlier, but it failed to do so. It was the Johnson Administration that had started Sentinel, and Vice President Hubert Humphrey chose not to campaign against it then (he is now a vocal opponent). For his part, Nixon was warning against a possible "security gap" vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and thus encouraging the ABM's backers. A new Administration and a new Congress offered...