Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Librettist Henry Butler stripped O'Neill's six-hour epic to focus exclusively on the psychological currents that seethe beneath the surface of each of the main characters. Boris Aronson's ghostly sets created decadence and onrushing doom. As drama, the opera unfolded with all the shivering tension of one long, gradually building shriek, thanks in part to the almost balletic direction of Director Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). But what made Mourning move was the inspired acting of two darkly beautiful sopranos-Marie Collier as the lusting mother, and Evelyn Lear as the revengeful daughter...
...Harvard Association of Planners, according to the part of the constitution adopted yesterday, will include as members all city planning students and faculty who want to belong. Among the association's goals arc to open a student-faculty dialogue; to focus student opinion; and to "provide a constructive and cooperative atmosphere" for planning at Harvard...
With Powell's re-election a foregone conclusion, the focus shifts back to the basic issue: What will Congress and the courts do next about his exclusion from the House? When he turns up on Capitol Hill with a new certificate of election, no one knows for certain how the House will react-although it has already voted by more than a two-thirds majority to exclude him from the 90th Congress, which lasts until the end of 1968. Certainly, Powell's recent antics have done nothing to increase his popularity among his former colleagues. Last week some...
BLOWUP. Actor David Hemmings comes into sharp focus as a pop photog who happens to take a picture of a murder (committed by Vanessa Redgrave) that he blows up, and which in turn blows up his whole mod scene...
...arbitrariness of the Maost leadership has been brought into sharper focus during the purge that is being carried out at present (mid-1966). Purges or "semi-purges" in the past were carried out with a kind of surgical precision. Quite often the victims could be linked with policy disagreements (such as Ch'en Yun, the former top economic specialist who was removed from power). Previously, the language used to describe the "guilty" was stern, but usually stopped short of hysterical. Furthermore, from the point of view of the victims, there was in most cases the possibility of "rehabilitation"--not Soviet...