Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although uncertain of the ultimate good that his effort will bring, MacDonald said he thought his protest had helped to focus attention on the issue and might lead to bigger protests...
...play bogs down when the focus shifts from this utter frivolity to a pretention of seriousness. There is twisted passion, a love triangle, a murder, an earthquake, havoc, destruction, despair, and, finally, incomprehensibility and boredom which Mr. Aaron's broad comic direction could do nothing to alleviate. There are no points made, no point of view maintained, and I have a suspicion that there were none intended. Mr. Houghton tries to be Pirandello, but perhaps because he is attempting to be fashionable, he cannot fuse the poetry of the language and the dramatic technique into a real and original point...
...Nation. The cooperation brought into focus the underlying fact-blurred by all the talk of New Frontiers-that, while much changed on Inauguration Day 1961, much remained unchanged. If John F. Kennedy intends to head toward a New Frontier, he will have to start out on the old paths. He could not abolish the legacy of the Eisenhower Administration even if he wanted to-any more than Ike could or wanted to undo the New Deal...
According to William L. Bruce '46, associate director, the program grew out of a conference in December, 1958 in which Bar Association members and law school officials expressed a concern for adequate understanding of the philosophy behind law practice and the responsibility of the profession. The Harvard program will focus on that responsibility and philosophy, in contrast to the "how to do it" courses at other law school summer sessions...
Insecurity Forever. At acting school and later in stock, Berman appeared in everything from Shakespeare to Chekhov to Charley's Aunt. Classmate Geraldine Page remembers Shelley's "potent personality, which sometimes bent the plays out of focus." As the clerk in Saint Joan, "he was so startlingly effective you thought it became almost a play about...