Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet) and the army. For another, only two committed leftists-apart from Mao-belong to the all-important, nine-member Standing Committee of the party. Currently, there are three vacancies on the committee. If there are to be severe factional quarrels in the future, they could well focus on the crucial issue of which party leaders will fill these places...
...WHILE SCORSESE succeeds viscerally in convincing us of the authenticity of the psychosis, there is a gap. It is never fully explained why Travis's violence would focus on Palantine rather than, say, on Betsy. Scorsese reaches for something very big here, and he falls a little bit short. "Something has to be done," Travis writes in his diary. "There's too much dirt, too much filth here. I just wish a big rain would come and wash it away." The frustration is conveyed, but the connection to political assassination is muddled...
Although Rosovsky says he has never read these schools' reports ("I try to focus on the local problem"), he has set up a system that he hopes is free of their flaws. But in his concern about an ultimate Faculty rejection, Rosovsky failed to confront the weaknesses of his task force subdivisions...
...federal government's attempt to aid the poor and minorities. Wallace speaks to genuine issues such as unemployment and inflation, but in a wholly destructive and superficial manner, diverting the electorate's attention from the roots of these problems in America's social structure. Instead, Wallace chooses to focus his appeal solely on divisive issues such as busing which are only manifestations of much more profound conflicts in American life. Jackson has been tripping over himself in his attempt to present himself as more reactionary than Wallace. Between the two of them they have articulated an insidious politics of hatred...
...turned brown with age. Various Faculty and administration moves have chipped away at the educational temple that was erected along the lines of the Redbook's blueprint, and as President Bok admitted on the night Rosovsky made his announcement undergraduate education at Harvard no longer has "a very clear focus or set of objectives...