Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bearing Cachalot far out in the Gulf, where a modern Russian trawler with sophisticated electronic gear lurked near by with obvious curiosity about what was going on. The Cachalot was dangled beneath the surface from a 100-ft. boom while Martin, insulated by a hooded wet suit, tried to focus on it. When a wave swell, of which he in the ocean depths was unaware, caused his target to heave up out of camera range, he swam up after it, only to swim even faster the other way when the ponderous bell descended...
...give a physical focus for student activity, the government is constructing a youth center in the middle of town, and for the past few summers has been inviting French and American student groups like Operation Crossroads to work with local students on the building. Progress is excruciatingly slow, but when it is done it will include a large meeting room, a library, a youth hostel, and a bar. Meanwhile, students converse over their shovels...
...ordinary, honorable components get obstinately blurred, resolutely thrown out of focus by an author who mistakes his vices for his virtues. Almost as if to cover up the honest banality of his basic theme, Orlovitz, 49, has laid on the obscurantism of a great prose experiment. He has succeeded only in substituting conventions of technique for conventions of content...
...meeting's focus was a panel discussion between Mark Shedd, Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia, David Deeley, New York City's liason man with the Office of Education, Edythe Gaines, the only Negro District Superintendent in New York City, and Robert Anderson, professor of Education, in a panel discussion...
...Vietnam war will be the focus of two new courses in the Spring term--one in the Social Relations department and one at the Law School...