Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another $800,000 will be used to help support research projects on contemporary Japan. This work will focus on the political organization, economy, urbanization, and popular thought and values of modern Japan. A major portion of the funds will be used to finance collaborative research with Japanese scholars. The Center is also making plans to bring scholars from several countries to participate in conferences on Japan...
...perspective and objectivity. It was for this reason that the job of directed evolved in the first place--and, analogously, that the orchestral conductor superseded the head-bobbing harpsichordist or violin list. Is the indulging of theatrical egotism and arrogance worth a return to the old-time lack of focus, balance, and precision? Both Sir Laurence and Saint Cyril should attend to wending their ways by mending their maze...
...SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Fredric March, as George Washington, narrates "1776" in a re-creation of the birth of the nation, with films shot at such historic sites as Lexington, Concord, Boston, Philadelphia, and Williamsburg. Repeat...
BATTLES IN THE MONSOON, by S.L.A. Marshall. A rapid-fire account of a summer's campaigning in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam, this book by Brigadier General "Slam" Marshall brings the red visage of war into close-up focus...
...view of events, as a member of the government and as a backbencher, is middle-distance only, and so not always in perfect focus. The editor's footnotes correct the record where Sir Har old's information was faulty, or where a dinner anecdote is constructed out of whole tablecloth. But the diarist's perceptions of people, from Churchill to De Gaulle to a rising Tory named Harold Macmillan, are always close-up and marvelously crisp and sharp. And the mood of an embattled nation is mirrored in all its nuances through the changing fortunes...