Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dickey's pet project is the Great Issues course which is required of all seniors. Designed to bring the foundation knowledge of the first three college years into sharp focus on the great national and international problems of the world. Great Issues offers lecturers like Archibald MacLeish. Lewis Mumford, and President Conant. It gives the men of Dartmouth a common cultural experience to match the enthusiastic social solidarity fostered by for years of living and working together in Hanover...
...problem of Palestine forms a focus for United Nations attention, the College Zionist Society, expecting a membership of 400, is putting into motion a series of lectures and forums centered around the controversial political economic, and social questions of the home land of Jews and Arabs...
...Judas" theme appears again and again, with the focus always on the death money, which slowly leaves him to give happiness to other people. He gives a blind man a pound, a poor woman five pounds to return to her home in England, and even the money that he throws away boastfully feeds hungry people. Wonderful dramatic scenes highlight the movie-Gyppo, the informer, drops some pieces of silver at the betrayed man's wake. They have not yet begun to suspect, but suddenly Gyppo sees himself as Judas. It is the drama of self-recognition, in which a potentially...
...focus of Western Europe's crisis was Italy. For the past month, the Communists had tried, through strikes and economic disruption, to overthrow il governo nero (the "black Government," i.e., Christian Democratic Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Cabinet). Then for nine days Communist Palmiro Togliatti and Socialist Pietro Nenni attacked De Gasperi in the Assembly. At 2:30 a.m. one day last week, came the showdown...
...American Dillemma," a massive treatise on the Negro problem in the United States, by Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish sociologist, will be the focus of Aptheker's remarks...