Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eventful decade. Astor turned his social awareness toward politics. The focus: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Hudson Valley neighbor he had come to like while Astor was a naval officer in World War 1 and Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. With open pocketbook, with amateur's enthusiasm, Vincent Astor backed his neighbor for New York Governor, for U.S. President, took F.D.R. cruising on his $2,500,000 yacht Nourmahal after the election (TIME Cover. April 9, 1934). End result: disappointment. When F.D.R. went farther and farther to the left, Astor could not go along, and soon...
...this, however, a new focus on collecting has emerged during recent years. While important French canvases have been finding more or less permanent homes in museums and smaller groupings, while old masters have made themselves still less accessible, a greater number of people than ever before have become interested in acquiring original works of art. Reproductions are sometimes better than nothing, but they rarely approach accuracy and, above all, they are many times removed from "the real thing." So, whether from a sense of the genuine or just a sense of possession, (which has always played a part...
...total result of the press coverage was that the U.S. newspaper reader, depending on his paper to bring focus to a scene far beyond his own powers of definition, was left with a murky picture. The facts were all there-the drumhead justice, the full-length profiles of the dramatis personae in a national upheaval. The meaning was not. Publisher John S. Knight (Miami, Akron, Detroit, Charlotte) openly criticized both A.P. and U.P.I, for "obscure coverage." But the blame was wider and the problem deeper than the press services...
...most victims show no symptoms. No cure is known. Untreated, the disease is often fatal within ten years; even with the best of care, in severe cases survival beyond 30 is rare. Last week, on the campus of integrated Marshall College in Huntington. W. Va., Marclan Walker was a focus of interest not only because she was going on 22, but because she had told her story in detail in Ebony. It was a story of living from crisis to crisis, and being pulled through each time by blood transfusions...
...average student. The idea of the Master's appointment bears out this conception of the Student Council as basically a group of "expert advisers." These men were not chosen for their political acumen, but rather for their good judgment. The new Council would do well to keep this focus in mind...