Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the following articles provide background and interpretation of various aspects of educational policy; others focus directly on the undergraduate's response to his education. Stephen Jencks analyses the difficulties that the University faces in formulating limited educational programs to remedy ill-defined undergraduate problems; Allan Katz describes students who commit what he calls "academic suicide"; and James Ullyot attempts to define the relationship between Harvard's athletes and the rest of the community...
Having got that obvious but long-obscured target into focus, the pamphlet went on to say that "there is no known upper limit to human ability, and much of what people are capable of doing with their minds is probably unknown today." What is known is that "the rational powers of any person"-including the supposedly dull-"are developed gradually and continuously as and when he uses them successfully." Other points...
...dozen blocks east of Harvard is Washington Elms, one of the pioneer Federal housing projects. Today this orderly pattern of three-story buildings is the focus of a community that might have been the model for Emile Durkheim's frightening concept of anomie...
...Chicago's new Playwrights cabaret theater, in some ways recalls Broadway's A Thurber Carnival, but it has a wry. gentle note all its own. It is also part of a growing Chicago school of humor (although Feiffer himself is a refugee from Greenwich Village). The focus of infection formerly was a group of improvisers called the Compass Players, celebrated for bringing forth Mike Nichols. Elaine May and Shelley Berman; currently it is a cabaret and theater called Second City (TIME, March 21, 1960). Dozens of satirical revues now inhabit the cellars of Chicago's Near North...
Usually a bald plot summary does not do justice to a movie; in this case, the resume hangs together better than the original screenplay. The script and Mastroianni's colorless acting do not focus enough attention on Marcello's character to make his fate a compelling subject. Since he is the only character to appear continuously throughout the film, he should have unified and connected the monotonous scenes of debauchery that follow each other in lubricious profusion. Through Marcello's eyes, we see one depraved spectacle after another. Individually these sordid vignettes succeed quite well, but, taken together, they...