Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your friends, discovering the name of the man across the hall, and looking for your own picture in the back of the Jubilee or in a crowd of 500 people around the Lampoon's steps. This is the present, contemporary function of 315. In a few years your reading focus may switch somewhat. 315 will become a reference volume, dedicated to the proposition that association in the Glee Club may lead to appropriation for a job. Past that, 315 will probably turn out to be a large and heavy object for the edification of grandchildren...
...nuts to tackle it." But their job turned out almost too well. The camera forms a star image so small and sharp that it hits only one or two grains in the sensitive emulsion on a photographic film. As a result, the camera must be used slightly out of focus to make star images big enough for easy study...
...declared intent of those fellows responsible for deciding which programs will come into focus on your TV screen, to cater to something they conceive of as the taste of the mass audience. Certainly a night spent in the tortured confines of a neighbor's living room, where you can't turn the damned thing off, is sufficient to convince anyone of their success...
...first plug of the next show, 2) jarring interruptions, when a song or action sequence is crudely broken into by a commercial, 3) noisy commercials, especially those that are sharply different in mood from the program, 4) overworked techniques, which have made viewers indifferent to stars whirling into focus to spell out a brand name; beer being poured into glasses; animated figures jumping on to and off of product labels; celebrities plugging hair tints and watches...
...commend your magazine for trying to focus our attention on Asia. Truman has relieved MacArthur of all his posts. The general purposely sacrificed himself, to focus attention on the desperate need out there. I hope many millions more will join me in a fervent prayer that at the next election, the commander in chief be relieved of all his duties. Two years more may be too late, however...