Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least those interested in Latin America have provided a "focus of attention" on the area by coordinating all the committees into an odd bureaucratic apparatus: the Inter-American (University-wide) Affairs Committee will act as an adviser to Pusey who is to determine basic policy for all future activity in the field. Unfortunately--ingenious as it is--the mechanism simply cannot free Latin American studies from its most binding limitation: lack of staff...
...Paris' one-ring Cirque d'Hiver acquired a second center of attention with the midnight entrance of Brigitte Bardot, 27. Combining the Empire look with what copycats in New York's Garment District currently push as the "proffered bosom," the tiara-topped screen queen was the focus of all eyes-save those of Playwright Marcel Achard, 61, an Academy "immortal" who was ensconced next to her in what appeared to be a state of stunned euphoria...
...FOCUS (Stan Getz; Verve). For reasons obscure, jazz musicians these days have a yen to go classical. This latest attempted fusion of longhair and brushcut involves seven pieces for string ensemble by Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter against which Saxophonist Getz pins his softly twining improvisations. The string pieces are in fact little more than an assortment of film-style clichés, but Getz's solos-soaring, tumbling and melting-are worth the price of the album...
SINCE 1871, the "German problem" has been the focus of Eurpoean diplomacy. With the founding in that year of the Second German Reich, most of the vast German population of Europe was for the first time organized within a coherent political structure -- a structure which allowed it to compete for markets, power, and prestige with the traditional Powers, as a nation among nations. The "German problem" has been that, once organized, she was obviously the strongest of the Powers, and likely to win the competition hands down...
Reportedly, Hughes hopes such a campaign might focus attention on the issues of disarmament and world peace. A Faculty sponsor of Tocsin, he is on record as favoring unilateral initiatives...