Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Reeves's participation in protest politics was more than a passing foray, his community work was more time consuming and more gratifying. But campus activists today, Reeves says, seem to focus on the bigger issues...
...Dixon, it comes down to choosing where she will spend her limited time and energy. Dixon says she finds it ironic that campus liberals focus on international civil rights issues like apartheid in South Africa while ignoring civil rights issues in the United States. "People have been lulled into believing that things have changed a lot [in the U.S.]. On the surface it is that way, but I don't think that's necessarily true. Here are people fighting about a cause 50,000 miles away when there are problems next door...
What kind of impression does all this make? On the one hand, that of some kind of confusion and uncertainty in Washington. The only way I can explain this is anxiety lest our initiatives should wreck the version of the Soviet Union being the "focus of evil" and the source of universal danger, which in fact underlies the entire arms race policy. On the other hand, there is an impression of a shortage of responsibility for the destinies of the world. And this, frankly speaking, gives rise again and again to the question whether it is at all possible...
Shreveport was the first stop on an eight-city tour designed by Bennett to focus attention on "the art of teaching." Also on the list are Washington; St. Louis and Clayton, Mo.; Osburn, Idaho; San Jose; Raleigh, N.C.; and Concord, N.H., where Bennett will sub for Sharon Christa McAuliffe, who is preparing for her January trip aboard the space shuttle. Bennett, a University of Texas Ph.D. in philosophy, who has taught at several universities, said he found teaching "one of the toughest jobs anyone could possibly have...
...mouthpiece of right-wing jingoism. Counters USIA Counselor Stan Burnett: "We are advocates. We are supposed to create a public climate for U.S. policy." Wick regrets that he cannot do more. "In an open society like ours, we can't tell the press what to cover. We can't focus on a subject like the Soviets do and just keep hammering away...