Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...notable yearning of today's college students is for broad courses that cut a swath across academic disciplines and focus on major social issues. One problem, however, is that there is rarely a niche for such freewheeling scholars in the modern, highly compartmentalized university. Berkeley Lecturer Ernest Becker, 42, who attracted overflow crowds into a 900-seat auditorium for a wide-ranging course embracing religion, anthropology and sociology, was reminded of that disturbing fact last month when Cal's anthropology department failed to rehire...
...sorry they're making this decision in private instead of releasing a public statement of their own expressing opposition," Levinson said. "At least that would focus discussion on the subject...
...groups, in Neustadt's and Price's eyes, was to attain one of the goals of the old G.S.P.A. which had been unfulfilled because of insufficient financing. That was to serve as the source of independent public policy research. This aspect of the Institute, Neustadt explains, will fit "the focus of the Kennedy School in that it will serve as a hinge between the academic disciplines and professional schools...
When he organized the Center in 1961, he decided to focus the work of his volunteers on the problem of the city environment--its history, scenery, and public health--because, as he says, "it includes so many different ways to get involved." In addition to the survey of Boston trees, volunteers from the Center have tabulated all the historic markers in the city and have compiled a calendar listing the anniversaries of Boston's historic events...