Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guessing and occasionally ascertaining the next step of friend and foe alike. Within the bowels of NSA, constant research is conducted into new theories and systems of communications and codes. Mathematicians probe the domains of statistics and higher algebra to solve or protect complex ciphers, while other experts focus on such esoteric topics as the effect of electromagnetic radiation on radio and satellite transmissions. To aid in this task, NSA harbors in its massive, concrete-walled basements what is probably the most sophisticated and largest concentration of computers in the world...
With male attention riveted on thigh-high boots and textured panty hose, women have apparently decided that hats are the thing to bring their neglected faces back into focus. "Besides," says Jet Setter Louise Savitt, "no man likes to dance with a woman with cold ears." There is not the slightest danger of cold ears in this year's status-fur hats, be they Adolfo's sables, Mr. John's chinchillas or Halston's minks. "The new styles are great," says Best-Dressed Betsy Theodoracopulos, "and wearing them cuts down on visits to the hairdresser." Since...
Until we know if Dylan is alive and well in a Columbia recording studio, we can only look back through seven albums (The Greatest Hits of ... doesn't count) which took him from the corduroy Huck Finn of "Bob Dylan" to the out-of-focus kaleidoscope poet of "Blonde on Blonde." In the liner notes to that first album Nat Hentoff blessed him as one of "the precipitously emergent singers of folk songs in the continuing renascence of that self-assertive tradition." Self-deceptive would be more accurate. Dylan was just another work shirt and guitar buried under hyperbolic interpretation...
...sense of moral outrage simply cannot and should not be dealt with in narrow and punitive legalistic terms. The Dow protest has raised some very important issues about the role of the University, issues which the University should fully discuss and deal with, rather than attempting to shift the focus to essentially trivial questions of behavioral infractions. The University administration's attempt to isolate and divide the protestors is most ignoble. Those who share this moral outrage--faculty and students alike--should not allow these diverse tactics to prevail and should not allow the essential moral questions to be evaded...
...group will focus on specific projects in an effort to combat a "great deal of Law School lethargy," according to Richard Turbin, a second-year law student and principal organizer of the committee...