Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxious to focus community-wide attention upon the "grave need for maintaining rent controls" and the importance of an articulate public opinion on that issue, the Harvard and Cambridge chapters of the American Veterans Committee will sponsor a mass rent control rally Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Rindge Technical High School auditorium...
...American literature. Above the basic introductory course, English 7, exactly two undergraduate courses in the field have been offered this fall: one on the local color movement and the other on American fiction since 1890. Both are specialized in the extreme and neither is concerned with the central focus of American literature, the middle span of the nineteenth century. And to pile Ossa on Pelion, the course on American fiction since 1890 conflicts in examination group with professor Merk's History of the Westward Movement--by all odds the outstanding American history course offered in the College...
...work last week descended from the committee level to the subcommittees. It was not lost from the sight of a vigilant and prolix press, but it was in that tentative, amorphous state where the detailed picture of it on one day would be out of focus the next...
Lenin in Smolny, an intensely photographic portrait in which the furniture is painted with precisely the same sharp, disquieting focus...
...stop performance, a choice which only serves to increase the tedium of the whole proceeding. By casting Mary Alice Moore, who was obviously made for something frothy by Philip Barry, in this morbid, introspective play, she has committed an error sufficient to throw the entire play out of focus. And in her role as the aunt, Miss LeGallienne demonstrates she still believes that elenching her hands and jutting out her jaw are sufficient substitutes for genuine acting. As for Margaret Webster and Victor Jory, they are no more or no less wooden than they always have been...