Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Focus Editor Leslie T. White managed last week to put his brand-new monthly picture magazine in the news by getting himself indicted for criminal libel by a Texas grand jury. Once one of California's best and most disillusioned detectives, Editor White wrote a modest best seller (Me, Detective) in 1936. In Focus, promoted through stock subscriptions, he began a pictorial crusade against national evils, for his first picked San Antonio's pecan-shelling industry...
George Sanders, as the soldier of fortune, is a severe disappointment, and serves only to focus attention on Miss Del Rio, who has been permitted variations on her old role as the femme fatale. She is hown consorting with sinister Orientals, attempting to shoot Mr. Sanders down in cold blood, driving about Shanghai in a Buick cabriolet, which does credit to Director Eugene Forde and in an excellent sequence she is shown fighting her way through a terror-stricken mob during an air-raid. Perhaps the most enjoyable scene, however, is that in which she renders a blues song...
...Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization striding, not from the elevator, but down the corridor, accompanied by Philip Murray, head of the C. I. O.'s ten-man peace committee. Calm and silent, Messrs. Lewis & Murray waited for the newsreel men to shift their light and focus, obligingly posed for a hundred stills. Then they, too, vanished into Suite...
...Focus of all this celebration was a vigorous, severely dressed oldster, whose polished, monolithic head rose above an oversized collar. For many hours he stood patiently erect-with a curious bearing of rustic urbanity and retiring self assurance -receiving the congratulations of state officials, municipal leaders, foreign envoys and friends. At the concert all eyes were upon his rugged figure as he sat, with his small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel...
...joint program, in which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences began to cooperate with the Faculty of Education for the better training of teachers, marked a momentous change. Not only was cooperation substituted for competition between the two bodies in the University, but the move brought into sharp focus the problems of educational policy as a primary Harvard interest. Now it is impossible to avoid discussion of a fundamental question: what does Harvard want education to be? The future of education has thus become the care of the University as a whole. Unfortunately, that responsibility is not viewed with...