Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis, the arrest of the eminent Dr. Israel Beer as a Communist spy just when they were trying to focus everyone's attention on the Eichmann trial was bad enough. But last week they learned that Dr. Beer was not the man they thought he was, and, furthermore, never had been...
...Bullitt '43, associate professor of English will conduct a course on in the Eighteenth Century . The course, to be given in the will "focus mainly on English A survey of "American Fiction 1890" will be undertaken by Poirier, assistant professor of English Among the authors to be Howells, James, Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner...
...focus on business instead of sport was bad enough, but worse was the threat to baseball's sacred records. Obviously, eight additional games will not affect some marks; most pitching records (games won and lost, strikeouts, walks, and shutouts) have not been approached in years, anyway. And Jim Perry of the Indians may take advantage of one or two more starts to set a new record for yielding home runs, but he probably would have made gopher ball history, regardless...
...sensibly focus the ideological issue. Let us not lose sight of its challenge to Western morality, an integral part of the Christian concept...
Masturbatory daydreams do not make good theater. There is sex enough in The Alchemist to justify it as the focus of a production; but to squeeze sex out of every line, to impose sex when there is none to squeeze, blurs the sharp outlines of Jonson's play and dulls his sharp wit. The lusty zest which director Mark Mirsky tried to inject into the production bloated it into a rarely amusing, never shocking bore...