Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former volumes Sinclair's characters, skipping here & there like grass hoppers on a hot stove, managed to be present at practically every important event of their century up to the Wall Street crash of '29. Now (1930-34), as the world's disease narrows its carbuncular focus in Germany, Sinclair narrows his, too - though never to the exclusion of the view that the responsibility for Naziism is as broad as the surface of the planet. He manages to whip in a good deal of data on the U.S., England, France; on such symptomatic side shows...
Triple Assault. Homer Lea dragged his sick little hunchbacked body up "down the U.S. Pacific coast, exploring for himself the beaches, the bays, the gaps and the passes through which landings might be established. His conclusions: > The first Japanese landings would be established in Washington and Oregon. Their focus would be the rocky, grey, low land around Grays Harbor, where the Wynoochee, Chehalis, Wishkah and Humptulips Rivers have scooped out the best natural pass inland. Centering on Centralia and Chehalis, the invaders would throw their left flank toward Seattle, their right toward Portland. They would seize the passes...
...tragedy of Erna Schmidt is the tragedy of all decent men and women, "the little people," who are blamed for the maniacal deeds of their rulers. The girls, in their patriotic fervor, try to focus all their unresolved thinking, all their unresolved thinking, all their hatred of Germany, upon her, trying to create of her an image of the Nazi regime...
Poetry. Most distinguished poem of the year was W. H. Auden's The Double Man ($2), a brilliant attempt to outwit the age's prevailing schizophrenia, and to focus at least a statement of the problem of evil and of the possibility of hope. All this it managed in verses as clear and casual as The New Yorker's, though wittier. Louis MacNeice published his collected poems ($2.50). The one durable translation was Robert Fitzgerald's Oedipus at Colonus ($1.50), which made clear that Sophocles was not, as other translations suggest, an unsuccessful Victorian imitator...
...Greene "socializes" his patients with parties, games and plays. They are given simple, mechanical tasks to develop muscular coordination, are also taught to speak into a microphone, for it serves as a focus of attention. As soon as a patient enters the hospital, he is given a complete physical examination and recordings are made of his speech so he can gauge his progress. A new clinic to study the brain wave patterns of stutterers will soon be opened in the hospital...