Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tired children, mountainous molehills. They called attention, too, to the good feeling between the three leading competitors-England, Finland, America. Colonel Robert M. Thompson, President of the American Olympic Committee, and the French officials were impatient with the attacks upon their cause, characterized them as unfair, out of focus, absurd...
...remarks in opposition to those magazines of Big Business, known as 'house organs.' Said I: 'One of the features of national intensity which is most open to criticism is the thing called a house organ, which is now unescapable in modern life, designed to focus the collective energy of large enterprises and coordinate the zeal of their departments. These journals are keys to strange chambers in the industrial soul of America. I forget what this particular magazine was run for-let us call it the organ of the ventilated mouse-trap trade. After reading a few issues...
...more pleasant thought, however, is that when its homelessness, its lack of equipment, is realized, a genuine effort will be made to construct suitable quarters. The need for a University theatre and auditorium has often been suggested, but it is apparently necessary to focus attention by some unusual incident and to stimulate effort by revelation of a glaring deficiency. The conversion of Massachusetts Hall may accomplish this highly desirable result...
...exceptional play, raised above a clinical discussion by the warm emotion of a girl's adolescent libido, but perspiring a little with theatrical laboring. Katherine Cornell gives an extraordinarily balanced portrayal, making the proper suggestion of a maimed butterfly fluttering its wings. Her acting swings the real focus from the man to the maid. She washes from the part any taint of carnalism. Her varied, rainbow performance stamps her as the greatest young player of her age. Lionel Atwill is forceful, explodes with the splendid precision of dynamite. But at times he is too conscious of making an impression...
...into certain outstanding features of the foreign relations of the Soviets, such as their unholy alliance with Mustache Kemal, their position at the Genoa Conference, the Treaty of Rapailo, and their presence at Lasagna. These are serious defects, and tand to justify the conolusion reaolied above cannoning the focus point of the author's interest...