Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rather, by letting the student give vent to his own vague but gnawing concerns, the counselor helps him organize his feelings in a coherent pattern that both he and the counselor can comprehend. Then, counselor and student together can focus on the newly perceived problems to search for insights and solutions. Ideally, this collabortive effort develops in the student a capacity for productive self understanding and relieves him of a prolonged dependence upon the Bureau...
...that the epicenter (the place on the earth's surface that is directly above the underground source of trouble) was located somewhere between Anchorage and Valdez in a wild, uninhabited region of glaciers and high, rugged mountains. Caltech's famed Seismologist Charles F. Richter thinks that the focus-the point where the shock originated-was at the comparatively shallow depth of 20 miles below the epicenter...
Alaska is a churning focus of just such action. A rock current under the crust is pushing North America into the Pacific, where another current is moving toward the northwest. The two currents are at right angles to each other, and their force makes the crust yield sideways, forming the great Fairweather Fault running up the Alaskan coast. The fault is a prolific spawning ground for earthquakes, and at its northern end is another source of seismic trouble: the great Aleutian Arc, which was formed by Siberia pressing southeastward into the Pacific and is dotted with active volcanoes. The Fairweather...
Every day begins with Elliott shouting over the intercom from the floor below: "Barbra, come and get your chicken soup." In Hart's day, the apartment's focus was the bar. Now it is the kitchen, whose walls Barbra has covered with red patent leather. She neither drinks nor smokes, but she eats like a woman thrice her weight, which is 125 Ibs. The kitchen is a self-service delicatessen heavily stocked with matzo brie, gefilte fish, grapefruit wedges, kosher salami, pickled beets, tzimmes, caviar, corn fritters, brownies, ice-cream rolls, cottage cheese, sweet potatoes, and enough frozen...
...help of modern electronics, Australian and British astronomers at the University of Sydney have managed to extend their star measurements by using a pair of 22-ft. parabolic mirrors. There is no need for the mirrors to be ground carefully enough to bring star light to the precise optical focus that is required by a standard telescope. All that is necessary is that they feed the light into photomultiplier tubes that turn it into electric current. Each mirror is made of 250 small hexagonal mirrors, good enough for the purpose and a great deal cheaper than the single dishes...