Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulbright did not confine himself to a consideration of international policy just as a means of preventing war. But when he spoke of the more positive benefits that can result from international cooperation, he quickly narrowed his focus from the world at large, to the countries in Europe and North America. "A genuine world community," he stated, "is demonstrably beyond our capacity in the world as it is and as it is likely to be for the foreseeable future." Therefore, he argued, "we must focus our efforts on the more modest goal of building new bonds among those peoples...
...member student governments have three kinds of links to NSA as a whole: regional structures, the annual Congress, and national elections. The eleven-day National Congress each summer, is where elections take place, and resolutions are written. As such, the Congress has been the focus of a good many of the older criticisms of NSA's "representativeness...
...reasons for what appears, to this writer, to be an increasing privatism on American campuses in the past few months are hard to pin down. But this trend seems to be the source of the changing focus in the criticism leveled at NSA. The recent increase in student activism that began in 1900 was clearly due, in part, to the impact of the sit-ins. Picketing, sitting in, freedom riding all gave students the feeling that they could do something to affect that great, ponderous bureaucratic world out there. The brief vogue of peace and disarmament demonstrations helped keep this...
Though it is hardly faltering, Barnard offers Miss Park some hard problems, the chief one being that most Barnard girls come from the New York area and live off campus. Since it is not a tidy residential school, Barnard needs a strong president to give it focus. Miss Park is also concerned with the trend toward early specialization among undergraduates. To deepen liberal learning, she wants to bring in more creative arts, politics, economics, math, philosophy-to produce laymen who can "challenge the specialist for the public good." Her aim is to put "some nobility, some unselfishness of aspiration into...
Nine Hours to Rama. The best part of this 125-minute film about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi is the 20 minutes that focus on the saintly man himself. The rest is pure Hollywood-on-the-Ganges...