Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emerson's grew more powerful. At last he could not write at all, getting into that frantic state of inability to concentrate that later cursed Mark Twain. "Hard as he tried to write, pulling down the blinds and locking his door, he could not bring his mind into focus. The novel became two novels, and the two became four He could not fix upon a single setting...even his theme eluded him...He made four beginnings, constantly changing his perspective, until he could scarcely bear to touch his blurred and meaningless manuscripts. A few of the scenes took form...
...that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away from church, and last week during the South Hadley de liberations, which were broadly planned to focus on "The Effective Church," he arose with some ready ideas on the matter...
...Cambridge and vicinity, insulting with their discordant clamor the quiet that has recently been disturbed only by the subdued and relentless scratching of examination correctors' red pencils. The difference between a D plus and a C minus and a C plus and a B minus comes into sharp focus and assumes an importance entirely out of proportion with that which it has when seen from the point of view which presents education as a mater of filling minds with knowledge and training them...
...seems to me that the subject of city planning deserves to be built up in this country. The Harvard School under Mr. Hubbard has made a good beginning and is today the most important focus of this subject in this country. I do not refer to planning in general. That is another thing. Nowadays all sorts of planning center in Washington,--social, economic, financial, etc. There ought to be an education center for city planning somewhere. If the subject is dropped out at Harvard, there will be no center in this country...
...responsibility of the Government Department to society, which the Crimson editorial emphasized, cannot be assumed to be fulfilled by shifting the focus of attention from political theory ("the art of government" according to the Crimson) to political practise. The notion that the practise of government can or ought to be studied at the cost of the least neglect to a careful consideration of the bases and objects of government, is a fallacious notion...