Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Head (20th Century-Fox), as Hamilton Basso saw it in his bestselling novel of 1954, was a rather unnerving spectacle in which the contemporary South looked like a magnolia tundra strewn with discarded Coke bottles. In the picture version, the view is strictly from the cash register, and the focus scrooches down pretty quickly on the kind of hot grits that generally go with the greens Hollywood loves best...
Unfamiliar Details. Most remarkable was the string playing, which created the sense of tone focus and flexibility usually found in the best string quartets. Behind the strings a pair of French horns entered every now and then with the utmost discretion, like a painter thickening his line without slowing his brush. Mozart came out very warmly indeed. When the slow movement was done, Conductor von Karajan stood momentarily with his arms dangling before his bent figure, as if to say, "How could such music possibly come...
...both the antagonistic propaganda of the Cold War and the Chimerical hopes of July in Geneva, the new Administration attitude should admit that agreement on the major issues of Germany and disarmament still lies far in the future. The United States, while continuing to negotiate on these questions, should focus the world's attention on the steps toward peace that definitely can be taken at this time--the expansion of East-West contacts, for example. Progress in this field, if continued long enough, may eventually transform the Spirit of Geneva into a world-wide spirit that will make Geneva conferences...
...Maupassant wrote "daring" stories in a society that still preserved the bourgeois decencies. Today, his people-as seen with the sharp focus of a man who wears his reading glasses because he dines alone-no longer seem as real as realism would suggest. His world, as "simple and faithless as a smile and a shake of the hand," no longer exists. The world of 1955, distressed by its own faithlessness, may long for something more than the hard sneer of a peasant who has made good in the city. But the man had power and style, and his best stories...
...allows Louis Hartz, for example, to teach "Democratic Theory and Its Critics"--which includes at least the departments of History and Government, or Harlow Shapley to teach "Cosmography" for which the only prerequisite is "persistent curiosity." Indeed, according to Hartz, the courses should not fit into any pattern, nor focus on any goal. Instead, "they should survive on their individual merits...