Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comics & Westerns. TV's swarming children's shows are designed to ensnare the growing urchin almost from the moment his infant eyes begin to focus. One of the best shows is reserved for the very youngest: NBC's Ding Dong School, featuring Dr. Frances Horwich and making life easier for mothers and their pre-school young. From here, the moppets are expected to progress by easy stages through Du Mont's Magic Cottage, ABC's Smilin' Ed's Gang to NBC's Pinky Lee Show and the bedlam of Howdy Doody...
...talents were brought by the current On the Waterfront to a deep-burning focus in the characterization of Terry Malloy. The role demanded all that Kowalski had, and far more. Kowalski was a brute, and to understand him Brando's heart had to die a little. Terry Malloy was a brute who was turning, in agony and wonder, into a human being, and to interpret him Brando had to take the more painful brunt of being born...
Only two members of the group really did much more than highly competent amateurs are liable to do. Leslie Cass, playing a girl who is at once sweet and likeable enough to be a focus for audience sympathy and tough enough to fight, even scheme, for her fiance, does very well. With her ambivalent character under fierce control, Miss Cass shapes much of the play despite the inherent vapidity of her role...
...time he announced the opening of the campaign drive last fall, Jordan had stated, "Only one element is lacking to give the Radcliffe graduate school the full stature of greatness. It requires a physical center: there is no focus which is so necessary for the growth of cultivated human beings...
...touch with itself. It "makes sense" or not, depending on the relation between what it is and what it thinks it is and wants to be. In a generation of change so rapid that the pace cannot be appreciated, the American self-picture has gone out of focus. The intellectuals, to whom a society looks for its picture, understandably failed to keep up. In the 1930s they were looking backward at the ruin that war, depression and fascism had made of the 19th century's high confidence in rationality, progress and perfectibility. Some clung stubbornly to fragments...