Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing quite like a fullblown civil rights debate to bring into focus the grievous problems of leadership in the Senate-particularly when a Democratic majority is in command. As Minority Leader Everett Dirksen mellifluously puts it, there are "100 diverse personalities in the U.S. Senate. O great God, what an amazing and dissonant 100 personalities they are! What an amazing thing it is somehow to harmonize them. What...
Prophets & Beasts. The focus of the collection was the postimpressionists, those who rejected the spontaneous, open-air naturalism of the early Monet, Pissarro and Degas. Two groups attracted the Hahnlosers' attention: the Nabis (or prophets, from Hebrew), and the later, more violently color-clashing...
Higgs' enthusiasm often races beyond enactment to enforcement of the bill, which will be the focus of his program this summer. "We must force the President to prove his liberalism, to fish or cut bait." Higgs fears Johnson will make an election-year deal with the Southern Senators on the enforcement issue, and the prospect infuriates him. In discussing it, his drawl tightens, the words shooting out singly and passionately; he is no longer the patient, understanding lobbyist. Before catching himself, and smiling at his anger, Higgs reveals both the pain and power of his commitment. His beliefs exiled...
Seventy-four lines of this is too much. The central image of the poem is an old sewage pipe through which he and his childhood companions once crawled. If Lewis had pared down the poem to focus on this symbol and eliminated the endless verbiage about cold snow, matted leaves, flat grasses, maple hedges, gray stems, tattered bark, and yellow sun, "March, Returned From Home" could have been a good poem. As it stands, it is sprawling, chaotic, and almost incomprehensible...
...past six months, and so much of the Indonesian economy is tied up in Sukarno's military harassment of Malaysia that almost no cash is available to buy rice on the world market. Sukarno's dilemma is that a retreat from the anti-Malaysia campaign would only focus his people's attention on their bleak plight and encourage Indonesia's Communist Party, which is presently excluded from his government, to become more politically active...