Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist parties. But the meeting, originally called by Khrushchev for Dec. 15, would now not take place until next spring, after a series of preliminary talks between Russian and Chinese ideologues. And instead of reading Peking out of the Communist movement, as Khrushchev had intended, the conclave will undoubtedly focus on restoring Red unity...
...result of extensive criticism among its staff and the entire Harvard community, the Yearbook has decided to scrap its traditional brief review of each undergraduate activity, sport, and organization in favor of a sharp focus on outstanding aspects of the various fields, according to Benning M. Grice, Jr. '65, managing editor...
...full of hate, and no more winning than any other angry young angry. The girl is not a girl but a soiled and weary woman who admits that men have come and gone in her life "like traffic through a tunnel." Typical of the show's erratic focus is Joe's response when he finally loses Lorna. He and the chorus launch not into a lover's lament but a rousing, anvil-hard hymn of civil righteousness: "I ain't bowin' down no more...
...country. Ironically, the man around whom the storm swirled had been the most self-effacing, quiet and publicity-shy member of Johnson's White House team. Quartered in Sherman Adams' old office in the southwest wing of the White House, he was the mysterious, slightly-out-of-focus fellow who seldom had his picture taken or got in the papers but who knew everything that was going on. A whiz at shorthand, he sat in on meetings of the Cabinet, on breakfasts with congressional leaders, and occasionally on sessions of the National Security Council. He had access...
Taub pointed out that the seminar is "not intended as a rebuke to the University for not having more courses on India," but rather as a convenient focus for the interests of a large number of students. "Area Studies would be a bit silly on the undergraduate level," he added...