Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. Drury's style is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in keen focus in this novel about chicanery in high places...
...Cronkite and Huntley-Brinkley reports are watched by an estimated aggregate of 30 million people, and it is claimed that 70% of that audience is made up of adults. One particularly popular news special, such as Pope Paul's visit to the U.S. last year, can easily focus the attention of 150 million viewers. Even at the dullest point of the Fulbright hearings on Viet Nam, several million people were tuned...
...jury prejudice-and they say that the A.B.A. proposals offer no threat to freedom of the press. "Reporters might get out and do some digging instead of running over to the D.A.'s office for a handout," says Manhattan Lawyer Robert Kasanoff. The whole point is to focus trials in courtrooms rather than newspapers, declares Richmond's Lewis F. Powell Jr., former president of the A.B.A. The result would fortify the A.B.A.'s canons of ethics, which have condemned pretrial talk by lawyers since 1908. As Powell puts it: "There would not be suppression of news...
...world feelingly," since at no other age are they so concerned with their emotions. But the schools manage even to take "the fantasy and romance from sex and make it part of a humdrum world of facts" in sex-education courses. More important, an adolescent's feelings often focus on his teacher and depend more on what the teacher "is and does than on what he knows." High schools thus "should worry less about the scarcity of well-trained graduates of certified teacher education courses and more about the scarcity of attractive personalities with developed sensibilities. The high turnover...
CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. Drury's fictional sense is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in fine focus in this novel about chicanery in high places...