Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Focus of Confidence. It is a time for greatness, but greatness is unpredictable in any President. More exactly, it is a time for statesmanship in the White House and Arthur Vandenberg is clearly and predictably a statesman. Thus he is esteemed in all quarters except those envenomed by the Chicago Tribune or perverted by fellow travelers. In New Hampshire, for example, many Deweymen and Stassenmen were second-choice Vandenbergmen. In sum, the private conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom...
...words seem necessary to focus the intention, "take but one little word of one syllable, for one is better than two; the shorter the word, the better it harmonizes with the work of the spirit. Such a word is this word GOD or this word LOVE. . . . [A single word] pierces the ears of the Almighty God, quicker than any long psalter unmindfully mumbled in the teeth. Therefore it is written that the short prayer pierces heaven...
...distinct from the stodgy realism of "documentaries" as the poetry which it breeds is distinct from the sickly prettiness of most "art" movies. The film treats nature as purely and honorably as it treats man. There is no elaborate composing, no fancy work with filters or soft focus, no picturesqueness: the camera merely accepts and sensitively records the more than sufficient beauty of the world it sees. For unadorned, undoctored beauty, immediacy and sensuous abundance, the film is unique...
...Monday night so that it can be printed and distributed across the nation on Thursday, for reading over the weekend. TIME editorial workers have Tuesdays and Wednesdays off. TIME'S editorial operations are laid out in a series of concentric circles. As the week wears on, the focus of activity contracts from circle to circle toward the center...
Prospective advertising men can discover copious openings in virtually all phases of the huckstering trade save the focus-point-the agency, three leading advertising figures told a full house at the Placement Office's second career conference at Adams House last night...