Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balmiest winters in history, last week greeted the spread of spring across the North with remarkable equanimity. Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union and a bustling, year-round center of industry, commerce and building...
...Keller and Anne Sullivan are glued inside one consuming relationship, things are quite different here. Elizabeth is but a person, a case history, in the career of a personage, a revolutionizer of history. But trouble lies also in the stage itself which, unlike a book, cannot bring everything into focus by having everything-including Elizabeth's story-seen through Freud's eyes. Hence not Freud but Elizabeth is the dramatic center of Acts I and III. In Act II what properly but disruptively takes over is Freud's own career, including his relations with his once daring...
Handlin's speech seemed an attempt the focus in the Eichmann debate. , he had addressed himself the technical, legal aspects of the Last night he spoke on behalf of moral law, and lamented of Israel from that ideal as significance of the Eichmann
...There's no question about it," he said. "The situation received new focus and attention as a result of the Sullivan proposal...
What is in fact disturbing is the focus which the criticism of this film has taken. Miller has been taken to task for trying to write a Western about good guys who are killed. For trying to respect Marilyn's simplicity rather than her freakishness. For writing about social incongruity and denying all the cheap patterns in which we believe. For admitting he's lost instead of finding himself a place in the jigsaw puzzle of cultural sterility...