Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guitarists in popular music who dares to use leaps of dissonance in his soloes: often you'll here bits of the blues, Celtic folk, heavy metal, and even classical stylings woven into the same song. Sometimes, in the overextended jam. "Country", for example, this variety can lack focus, but the results are always interesting--if not always ultimately satisfying...
...South African government had been adopted as a limited concession to student demands for total divestment in 1978. In 1980, this policy compelled the Corporation to divest $50 million in Citibank debt securities after Citibank joined a consortium loan to the South African government. Harvard's action became the focus of press attention which embarrassed both Citibank and South Africa...
Cleaver's objections to Baldwin, then, stem primarily from the fact that Baldwin, like Malcolm X just before his death, believed that the Black movement should concentrate on educating all races, especially young people, about suffering of Blacks and the injustices brought upon them. This focus was a direct repudiation of the factics of action groups like the Panthers that tried to overthrow society. The Fire Next Time, unlike Soul On Ice, is not concerned with history or politics but rather with how it feels to be an outsider, to be Black in a white world. Baldwin believed...
These liberals--the Eastern media establishment in particular--have had it in for our President for a long time. Not only does Ron have a limited attention span, but, they add, when he does focus what little attention he has, he comes up with crazy harebrained schemes. A prime example is his Star Wars proposal--the lunatic concept that we could protect ourselves from unclear missiles simply by zapping them out of the sky with laser beams and the like...
...flight has been the focus of heightened attention because one of Hoffman's fellow crew members is Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah), who is aboard as a congressional observer...