Word: focusing
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Playing with Fire. Exercise Focus Retina* was the latest in a series of airlift demonstrations that have whisked troops from home bases in the U.S. to hypothetical hotspots in Iran, Turkey, Greece, Norway and West Germany. It was also the longest distance that airborne troops had ever been flown to a parachute drop. A fleet of 44 C-141s and 33 smaller, slower propjet C-130 Hercules transports carried 2,500 men and 721 tons of supplies and equipment from the eastern U.S. to South Korea. Aside from the weather delay, there were few untoward hitches in the military exercise...
...letters appearing Friday a propos of the comp lit meeting last Monday. I signed the graduate students' letter, and now deeply regret having done so; the letter implies the CRIMSON's errors to be infinitely greater in import than they really are. Since I was the particular focus of an intense and personally exhausting controversy in the department, I confess I felt momentarily intimidated, and so added my name to an explanation the length and punctilious detail of which makes for an air of fearful apology I think was completely uncalled for. The fact that the students knew Professor Levin...
...bring into perspective the power of radical views, now the focus of much anxiety in the Harvard community: before Monday's meeting I had met a few times with several other graduate students in comp lit. We had all discussed problems relating to our lives in the department and to the practice of the profession of teaching of literature, the cultural imperialism latent in such notions as that of "great traditions," the oppressive nature of professionalism, the way the job market dictates one's choice of field--and explained my views at some length. The others felt that these ideas...
Writing from the focus of the spiritually down and out, the demented and the dead, New Zealander Janet Frame has developed a tidy literary reputation as a wild necromancer. Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room, her seventh novel, offers a typically hard look at life from the dark side...
...comes, when everyone would be happier if it could be Just Dropping By. Girls are supposed to yell "Man on" when they bring their visitors upstairs and put a sign on the door after they have evacuated their roommate to leering suppositions underlying these procedures put the focus on just what the authorities are presumably trying to plaster over...