Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor Alda never quite conveys the inward drive that consumed Gershwin at the age of 38, but the sincerity and as surance of the surrounding players focus on him a force and dignity that make the central character amply credible...
...Assembly. The General Assembly will be the focus of talk and of hope -but not of power. In it each nation, great or small, has one vote. In this fact lies the Assembly's importance by the test of equality and its weakness by the test of power reality. A majority vote in the Assembly might be made up of nations which, at a showdown, could not enforce their will on any one of the Big Three...
...loyal to the Polish Government in Exile. In Shanghai the Communist underground was fighting a bitter, no-quarter battle against Chungking's underground, organized by keen, self-effacing General Tai Li, head of the Central Government's secret service. It was a battle in the dark, a focus of China's undeclared civil war, with both antagonists hunted by the Japanese, and hunting each other against a background of Japanese-inflicted misery, desolation, hunger and brutality...
...story is well known-how they fought through the torn coconut plantations, crossed the Tenaru River, fought the battle of Lunga Ridge; how they grabbed the airfield and hung on, almost out of supplies, ravaged by malaria, while the Japs poured in reinforcements. That tropical battleground became the focus of a nation's anxiety. If the ist had failed, the damage to U.S. plans and morale would have been incalculable. But the ist hung on. buried its hundreds of dead and counted the enemy dead in the thousands...
...American married to a Frenchman adds: "For years TIME was a precious bond bringing my homeland into clear focus each week. Five years of war make me value such a bond more than ever...