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Word: focusing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean Monro is apparently the focus of pressure exerted by persons alarmed by rumors about drug usage at Harvard. We understand Dean Monro's desire to pacify worries about undergraduate activity, but we believe he is ill-informed about the effects of these drugs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter from Alpert, Leary | 12/13/1962 | See Source »

Interviewed last night at the Club Mount Auburn 47, Washington said he plans to make his a "model police brutality case. I'm glad that this happened to me now, despite the inconvenience of a and a broken nose. I'm in a good position to focus attention the brutality of the Boston police...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg and Richard L. Levine, S | Title: Local Singer to Appeal Assault Verdict | 12/12/1962 | See Source »

...focus of interest is among the young. On campuses where guitars and banjos were once symptoms of hopeless maladjustment, country twanging has acquired new status. A guitar stringer shows up once a week at the Princeton University Store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singing: Sibyl with Guitar | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...Song will get an unmatchable focus on the fine detail of American history. What is more, the folk songs bring it back alive. The West, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singing: Sibyl with Guitar | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Some may fear that the elimination of sponsors will destroy the home-like atmosphere of the Houses. They see the dining hall as a focus for developing House spirit, and they would view unsponsored diners from the outside as an intrusion, a disrupting, alien influence in a tightly knit group of friends. It is a pity that this vision of the Houses squares so poorly with reality. Four hundred undergraduate men hardly constitute a family, even if they do happen to take their meals at Leverett House. New faces from other Houses and other Harvard institutions should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harmonious Feast | 11/20/1962 | See Source »

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