Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to focus American thought on the necessity of starting now to build a lasting peace, the Massachusetts League of Nations Association will sponsor a round table conference of several noted speakers next Monday in the New Lecture Hall on "The League of Nations and the Post-War World...
...Germans was an even bigger objective than Russia itself: an effort to squeeze the Middle and Near East in mighty pincers. This prospect was still far from reality, but it was near and dark enough to bring Kharkov and Kursk very close to Cairo in the total focus of World...
Continue your objective reporting, concentrate your literary focus upon the truly significant, group events so they are seen in their proper perspective, and you will do your country a great service, as well as reestablish the "power of the press." And we need that far more than we think we do at the moment...
...with a reverence for the human spirit which too many of his literary superiors lack. In this novel about the miracle of Lourdes, which is an act of piety transcending blood and creed ("I am not a Catholic but a Jew"), he brings that reverence into clean, spacious focus...
...believe in the Basil of the epilogue who says, "There's only one serious occupation for a chap now, that's killing Germans," good as he might well be at the job. But Waugh's tag line brings every page of the book into razor focus...