Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shirley Ann Grau is a master of the Soft-Focus School of fiction. The events of her stories and novels are not so much perceived as vaguely apprehended, looming unexpectedly through an ambiance of feeling. In her oblique vision the disappointments of childhood are glimpsed in a puddle of frozen gutter water, the fears of adulthood suggested by the sharp, metallic smell of a nearly defunct streetcar line. The method can be tedious, but in her second novel, New Orleans-born Author Grau proves again that in the hands of a first-rate storyteller the shortest route between fact...
According to John E. Burchard, Dean of Humanities at MIT and General Chairman of the conference, the primary focus of the meeting will be academic rather than practical. That is, the conference will seek first to encourage a more active study of urban history, rather than explicitly offer concrete solutions to current problems. But it is hoped, too, that the papers and discussions will provide some fruitful generalizations about cities of the past that may be applied to the study of cities in the present. Then these new concepts and leading ideas might provide an intellectual foundation for contemporary city...
...Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). In "The Constant Protectors," a good local documentary, cameras prowl the streets of St. Louis with a police patrol...
Even though Harvard has long used (even exhausted) the image of the "frontier" in intellectual life, many students appear to miss the simple point that settling one frontier always opens another. As a result, they focus too much on the goal (settlement), and not enough on the process (exploring, mastering, moving on). Opting for academic abandon, in contrast, signifies a restless concern with process...
...argue that certain organizations and students, inclined by their nature to social and community work, take a more active part in Cambridge. This is not to propose more Phillips Brooks Houses, necesarily. Rather, groups like the undergraduate religious and political clubs, some of which are quite active, might focus more of their activities on the community...