Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks; that, instead of adding tutorial to a program of four courses, the students is able to count it as a course and is thus encouraged to put out a little more effort; and finally that the tutorial reading and discussion are supplemented by lectures that try to focus attention on the study and criticism of major authors, and on some of the central aims of literary history and criticism...
...applying the 70 percent rule, Watson cautioned, Housemasters may not alter the current cross-section distribution in the Houses. "We feel that it would be unfair to let some houses take over and above their normal number of first choices and thus throw the system further out of focus," Watson said...
...Though its correspondent, Harrison E. Salisbury, files only closely censored stories, the Times prints his dispatches as it gets them, assumes that the paper's readers are "intelligent enough" to know they may be reading Communist propaganda. It tries to keep Salisbury's picture of Russia in focus with separate interpretative articles and editorials...
Named the Harvard New Jazz Society, the group will "focus attention on all that's good in jazz, not only bop or progressive. Only our prejudice," Wilson stated, "is a catholicity of jazz taste...
...Northwest's eyes will focus on Douglas McKay, the new Secretary of the Interior. An ardent states-rights governor of Oregon for the past two years, he told the Senate Committee of the Interior that "public power was getting most of the breaks in the Northwest." This may mean that McKay will not object if Congress fails to appropriate money for new transmission lines; it might even mean that McKay will want to let the private companies build the new projects on the Columbia. In any event, private utilities all over the country will eagerly watch developments in the Northwest...