Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HOWEVER, THROUGHOUT THEIR conversations, Sartre maintains a distance. Not only is he the "I" the constant focus of the conversation, but he removes himself as superior. At one point, he portrays himself as superior. At one point, he portrays himself as a teacher figure for his companions: "I amuse myself by teaching them freedom. So that my speeches, at first purely negative and referring to a shared morality, become positive indoctrinations." He is at once with his comrades and above them, companion and teacher...
Swanson's interest in South Africa dates from his days at Harvard as an editor, and later president, of The Crimson. At that time, campus activists were beginning to focus attention on the role of U.S. investments in southern Africa, largely with respect to holdings in the Portuguese colonies in that region. Several years later, Swanson came in contact with exiled members of the South African resistance, the African National Congress, as a reporter for the Bay State Banner, a Black Massachusetts weekly. Largely as a result of those interviews, Swanson in 1978 decided to travel to southern Africa...
...then popular B.A., and his choice to devote his life to missionary work for the Y.M.C.A. in China--follows naturally from Hersey's early description of David's formative years and is often repetitive. Moreover other characters including Treadup's wife and family pale next to Hersey's concentrated focus on the giant hero and his all important surrounding. Hersey's choice of a life-long story offers the benefit of broad scope but hinders any depth of characterization...
...live up to the University's ethical standards. It's certainly true that if a company won't talk to its shareholders it's harder to determine how it is operating. However, it's the exception when companies are not forthcoming. More importantly, though, the purpose and focus of the dialogue goes well beyond merely determining how our portfolio companies operate. We are primarily, through the dialogue process, trying to convince those companies which operate in less enlightened was to improve...
Texas Truman scholar Melissa Wright '87, a Social Studies concentrator, said here general focus has been on community-oriented work, ranging from working for Phillips Brooks House to helping Central American immigrants in her home state...