Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory that solving the Depression is not a one-man job, even for a Democratic President, Senator Pat Harrison. Mississippi Democrat, was inspired to bring every possible plan, program, proposal or panacea into sharp focus at the Capitol where Mr. Roosevelt could pick and choose the ones he liked best. To that end, Senator Harrison last month had the Senate pass his resolution authorizing the Finance Committee, of which he becomes chairman after March 4, "to make an investigation and study of the present economic problems of the U. S. with the particular object of obtaining the views of such...
Gilbert Seldes has gone Mark Sullivan and Frederick Lewis Allen (Our Times, Only Yesterday) one better. With amazing celerity, great industry and a comprehensive focus, Seldes has drawn up an interpretative history of the last three years in the U. S., so that those who are still on the run may read. Calling his book a "fever chart," he plots the curves of recent U. S. public opinion, shows how it followed the swoops of economic graphs. Written with wit and wisdom. The Years of the Locust is a serious book not aimed at mental moppets, well worth a tycoon...
...Focus of U. S. theatrical attention last week was a great grey pylon which strikes the earth where Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Elevated fences off 50th and 51st Streets -the Radio City Music Hall of Rockefeller Center. Wags had already dubbed the locale of the new theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel O'Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week-and as many weeks thereafter as he could make the $85,000 "nut" (overhead)-a monster variety bill twice daily...
...that the vital intellectual enthusiasm which undoubtedly exists, by being hopelessly scattered, may lose much of its force. Harvard needs at its head a man who, through the vitality of his own intellectual life and through a living interest in the educational standards of the college, can embody and focus the ideals for which Harvard ought to stand...
Tuesday's football game between the championship Winthrop House eleven and the winning Yale class team brought into sharp focus the weakness of the present rule permitting men on probation to engage in all inter-house contests, but prohibiting them from playing on a victorious house team against Yale...