Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League was a bit startling both to those who run the course and those who take it. The eight-page document, released last month, was an anti-climax. Though well-researched and well-written, it blunted the edge of its militancy with too much scholarly prose, and too little focus on how the course should change...
...took over the course in the spring of 1959, he and three others in the Department submitted a massive plan for revising Ec 1 (their outline for the revised course was more than 20 pages long). Gill acted, he says, because "Economics 1 had settled into a rut; the focus was too much on the system in the United States here and now parts of the course got bogged down in diagramatics so that students were learning tools and not much else...
While platoons of U.S. leaders shuttle across the Pacific with metronomic regularity, America's allies in Europe look on with a growing sense of chagrin. Europe, traditionally the primary focus of American foreign relations, seems to many of its leaders to have been relegated by Washington to stepchild status. Not since June 1965 has a U.S. President or Vice President visited the Continent despite the swift and subtle changes that have overtaken Europe. Last week Hubert Humphrey set out on a two-week, seven-nation European swing aimed at demonstrating that the U.S. has not cut its ties because...
...Kerr argued that campus revolts have their own limitations and, even when successful, carry "the seeds of their own destruction." To have any effect, a revolt needs an issue to galvanize action, a leader to capitalize on that issue, and a tactic to exploit it. But even finding a focus for rebellion, said Kerr, can be a "wearying process." Compared with the strongly ideological political activism of the 1930s, the "issue-by-issue protest movement" of the 1960s will prove to be more immediately dramatic and troublesome, but not permanent in the long...
Hurry Sundown is a gigantic masquerade in which the participants put on two things: a Southern accent and the audience. Based on K. B. Gilden's 1965 bestseller, Hurry Sundown examines Georgia's effluent society after World War II. Its focus is the fortunes and follies of the Warren family, a sorry collection of scapegraces and scapegoats. Henry, played by England's Michael Caine with a surprisingly plausible spoonbread locution, is a draft-dodging mongrel. He aims to become a real estate mogul by grabbing passels of farm land from his soldier-cousin Rad (John Phillip...