Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reach them move. Her method is not oratori cal but artfully journalistic. Her book, subtitled Middletown -Nazi Version, is a narration of fact throughout, and she has taken convincing care that her characters and her facts shall be typical. In a prologue and ten stories she brings into detailed focus the nature of a nameless German city shortly before the war: the sickness of all its parts, the inchoate readiness of its people to overthrow the leaders they had accepted. By the time she is done she has left little untouched that makes up a community or a nation: industry...
...principle of the coronagraph (which resembles an anti-aircraft gun-see cut) is simple. A metal disc is placed at the focus of the telescope lens to cut out the bright sun image. A second lens focuses on photographic film the black disc and flaring corona, and a powerful spectrograph breaks up coronal radiation into its component colors. A moving picture camera can also be attached to the telescope...
...memory. But for Unemployable he had a model: a broken old panhandler who came to the back door for a cup of coffee, left after one sitting and never came back. Artist Friedman put him on canvas in his faded overcoat and battered hat, with one eye out of focus. He spent most time painting the hand, made it the symbol of a working function that society had dis carded...
Cities are an obstacle of great strength to advancing infantry. In a place like Viipuri, a focus, where concentration can be met with concentration, the overwhelming superiority in Russian numbers makes little immediate difference. Hammer meets steel...
...Littauer School is more than an office building for Government and Economics professors. A real attempt is being made there to being together the best contemporary thinking and research and focus it on problems of government administration...