Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Common Concept. Larson's plan of action in his new job has both an immediate and long-range focus. For example, he believes that something should be done soon to show how the World Court can be employed to settle claims in international trade and investment, thus providing a sure remedy for either nations or investors who think they have been wronged-to the ultimate benefit of world trade and investment. On another tack he wants to study the comparative law of all nations to see where the common denominator might lie for progress toward a world rule...
Little Rock, in almost any case, will be a focus of struggle. If the U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Federal Judge Harry Lemley's 2½-year delay in integration (TIME, July 14), the use of further legalized delay will apparently have to be overset or affirmed on further appeal to the Supreme Court. If no delay is permitted and Negro students are not Faubused into staying away from Central High School on registration day, there will almost certainly be more uproar...
...Orwell lived in rooms that smelled "like a ferret's cage" and ate unmentionable meals at tables under which there was sometimes a full chamber pot. Even Louis-Ferdinand Céline's vomitive delineation of the Paris slums could not bring more repulsive social maggots into focus than those fixed by Orwell's baleful lens. He went down the wet, dripping, insecure coal mines on the heels of the naked miners-the comparatively fortunate who still had jobs. His picture of the unemployed miners and their wives scrambling for coal on the slag heaps...
...little" magazines have fallen on thin times. Published in Paris attics or Greenwich Village cellars, printed on butcher paper, and usually as short-lived as May flies, little magazines were the focus and the forum of the experimental '20s, awaited by literati with breathless interest for the latest chapter of James Joyce, the newest obscurity of Ezra Pound, the next outrageous typographical innovation devised by e.e. cummings...
...does the 1957-58 recession compare with the two other postwar business dips of 1948-49 and 1953-54? Last week the nonpolitical Committee for Economic Development brought out a remarkable set of graphs that for the first time put the recent downturn in clear focus-and incidentally laid to rest some cherished views about combatting recessions. Starting at the first real dips, C.E.D. individually plotted such prime indicators as industrial production, gross national product, employment, inventory changes, plant expansion, month by month or quarter by quarter to show the relationship of each to the others. Conclusion: the current recession...