Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...useful, the Council will have to shift substantially its current focus. Instead of publicly fighting the small issues that come up each year, it should select probably no more than half a dozen basic questions and subject them to careful and informed analysis. Council reports should have the same thoroughness that characterizes studies of the Visiting Committees of the Overseers...
...what amounted to a fundamental organizational change, Tocsin voted last night to broaden its strict focus on disarmament to include research and action on all the social, political, and economic issues in the United States that relate in some way to peace...
...Premier Castro...allowed the fishing boats to proceed into our waters and thus created an incident that would give him an excuse to focus world attention on Guantanamo by cutting off its water supply. His denials are refuted by monitored radio messages between the boats and Havana and President Dortico's broadcast announcing claims to the base at a time 'convenient' to Cuba...
Using Chicago's "trail-blazing" efforts as examples, Daley explained that the scope of urban renewal is widening to include consideration of transit systems, sanitation problems, and "improved educational, health and recreational facilities of all kinds." He also told of a change in focus of renewal from one of "slum clearance" to one of "rehabilitation...
...Miller has put the mind's eye on the stage. In the mind, the past and the present are coetaneous. Thus the play does not flow chronologically. Quentin's thoughts dart back and forth with lightning speed. The characters, whether mute or speaking, move into and out of focus instantaneously. The effect is kaleidoscopic. (The full text, by the way, will be printed in, of all places, the February 1 issue of the Saturday Evening Post; but the work will be difficult to assimilate from the printed page alone...