Word: focused
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This year's hockey season was without doubt the highlight of my school year. Not only did Harvard come within a goal of a championship in a nationally contested sport, it did so in a way any hockey fan should appreciate. The team's focus throughout the season was on agile skating and passing, not on the bullying and cheap shots strategy which currently dominates North American hockey. Coach Bill Cleary and his team showed the NCAA that you don't have to play dirty hockey to win. This apparently doesn't mean much to Kurzman, and I doubt that...
...draw figures better than Milton Avery, but that is not saying much. The late-'50s portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Taylor and Norman Bluhm are, as portraiture, thin and perfunctory; for a quick check on what a first-rate American draftsman could do with the human face as a focus of inquisitorial attention, one could have done worse than visit West 57th Street after leaving the Whitney to catch the show of Ellsworth Kelly's portrait drawings at the Blum Helman Gallery. Perhaps only in America, where the cultural role of depictive drawing was so quashed and ghettoized...
...pacing doesn't help Keshishian avoid the ups and downs of individual numbers which range from spectacular to stifling, his painstaking musical selection carries the show. Most of the songs seem appropriate, well-placed, almost meaningful. The projection of the lyrics on screens beside the stage helps the audience focus on the importance of what exactly the actors are mouthing but is admittedly distracting. With no dialogue, except for Brenneman's narration and one brief and painful incident of normal speech, the lyrics have to glue the show together and they...
...march route includes the river houses in order to stress the the most common form of rape at Harvard--date or acquaintance rape--according to Garber. Several speeches will also focus on date rape...
According to Healy, this year's budget will "continue to focus upon the city's efforts to improve the maintenance of our streets, sidewalks, parks, and public buildings." The proposal allocates over $17 million to a capital program for this purpose...