Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impression of the film is that Roosevelt personally invented the idea that ordinary people have a few ordinary rights, and that he alone, among the U.S. political figures of his time, had a heart and a soul. Most unfortunately, the emotional focus of the picture is a kind of leader-worship, hardly more attractive in the fact that the leader happened to be a man of good will rather than...
Glamour Magazine has caught up with Carstairs Whiskey in the current issue and passed the punchbowl to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, associate professor of History, as "a man who cares." Sighting along the barrel of a trusty briar, he is pictured "getting the future in focus" in the current issue...
...book does not rise to the stature of a great, or even a very good, novel, it at least does not try to show a great panorama of society, and fail. Everything investigated is seen thoroughly, in perfect focus, but there are definite limitations. Only half a dozen characters are seen, representing very little of society, though a good range of neuroticism. But the chief merit of the book lies in the fact that Sartre has put his story ahead of his theme, and whatever abstract ideas of Existentialism he has expressed, he has converted them into the concrete form...
Joan Leslie is sincere as the unhappy girl caught in Fate's double-focus; and Mr. Hayward throws all his weight into his role as a noisome drunkard-husband. But it is hard to figure out why he isn't done in again long before the show is over...
...other effects take over. As the giant sound waves rocket around the room, White and his assistants feel their eyes go out of focus. Their muscles jerk and their jaws drop...