Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case with stories about inaccessible Communist China, the facts about the country were gathered from hundreds of peripheral sources, ranging from professional China watchers who monitor the sounds and words coming out of the mainland to visitors who bring out firsthand information. This week's stories, however, focus more on an analysis of policy and on the factors involved in the fateful Red China-U.S. confrontation. While men of good will search earnestly and hopefully for a way to peace in the world, it is also critically necessary to face aggressive power squarely and examine the means...
...probably Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There he sat in Hanoi, exchanging pleasantries with North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and chatting desultorily about possible Soviet military aid. Then-bang!-bombs were falling only 250 miles away. Aleksei was on the spot, and his position brought into sharp focus the whole question of Communist-bloc relations...
...normal week brings into focus a number of incidents-always violent, usually passionate, and rarely predictable-in that most cinematic of existences, Life-Italian Style. A few recent examples...
June,*the Supreme Court sharply extended the right to counsel by ruling that it begins when police start grilling a prime suspect. Suspects are now entitled to the physical presence of a lawyer as soon as "the process shifts from investigatory to accusatory-when its focus is on the accused and its purpose is to elicit a confession." And predictably, state courts have already found themselves grappling with Escobedo's scope and retroactivity. Items: > In Providence, Escobedo has just reached down as far as traffic offenses in the case of Jose Gonsalves, 33, a Portuguese alien, whose...
...meet "one who suffers from an inferiority complex." In a soon-to-be published book called Cellist, excerpted in last week's Saturday Review, Piatigorsky writes a delightfully incisive analysis of wandmanship. The conductor's role, he argues, has grown out of all reasonable proportions. "The focus of attention" he says, "has shifted from prima donna, prima ballerina and the virtuoso to a conductor, who, as a performer, has become all three in one. If he is to be blamed at all, it is not so much for assuming his role, but for demanding and wearing his crown...