Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems require big government. What they are apt to resent is the Federal Government's playing too pervasive and domineering a role in decisions that are better made at the state or local level. On the other hand, Washington is recognizing that many of its programs need local focus and effort to make them work efficiently. The result, in the best pragmatic tradition of American politics, is that Washington is busy changing the shape and context of its aid and influence...
...Times' "Washington Correspondent"-the bureau chief's official title-bureau got a Sunday column. Although he continued to report on a day-to-day basis, his focus shifted slightly. "I try to ask myself," he said in 1958, "what's not getting reported? What's not on the agenda? What's the big story we're all missing? That way I lean against the wind...
There are other Negro newspapers, Miller explained, but they don't do what the Banner does. They focus almost entirely on entertainment, sports, or else are "100 per cent press release papers." "We're a no nonsense paper," he adds, "for people who really want to know what's going on in the Roxbury community. We want to be a paper for people who live here, not people who drink here," he adds. And the 20,000 readers who acquired the Banner habit in the last seven months seem to indicate Miller's paper is a welcome addition...
Harvard has long awaited a student art journal and though there is much to be criticized in this first issue it contains the germ of a marvelous idea. More student work, more concentrated focus on what is of interest to this community, and above all a greater effort to understand the specific qualities that interact in each work of art could make subsequent issues of the Harvard Art Review a significant contribution to the cultural breadth of this community...
...Christ now came to earth, as sure as I live, He would not attack the high priests and the like; He would focus His attention upon the journalists...