Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today Evtushenko is the focus of a controversy set off by the most inconsequential of events: his nomination last month for the Chair of Poetry at Oxford. Long-smoldering antagonisms to Evtushenko flamed into print during the balloting, and it was no matter that he finished third behind the winner, an English solicitor and minor poet, Roy Fuller. The attacks on him continued...
...Literate, funny, warm and tender" was Producer Hal Kanter's unblushing preseason review of his new NBC show Julia, the first TV series to focus on a Negro family. "Julia will be an opportunity to show the world how black people live," chimed in Diahann Carroll, late of Broadway (No Strings) and Hollywood (Hurry Sundown), who plays the title role...
With its superior color reproduction the tasteful, calcum-textured Art in America is easily the handsomest in its field. Editor (since 1940) Jean Lipman has geared the magazine more to the intellectual currents in art-its new forms, trends and concepts-than to news of exhibitions and galleries, the focus of its main competitors, Art News (circulation 38,600) and Arts Magazine...
...Ginger Man, particularly because Beefy is so reminiscent of that rascal O'Keefe, Sebastian Dangerfield's friend. And many of the sexual scenes, often dominated by Beefy's rhetoric, bear an uncomfortable resemblance to those of the earlier book. But there is a dramatic shift in focus from the blatant hardships of the lower classes in Ginger Man to the more subtle and delicate troubles of the moneyed aristocracy. In both cases, there doesn't seem to be much justice for such money-haunted people as Balthazar, Beefy, Dangerfield and O'Keefe...
...performances, though uneven in control and focus, all suggest a remarkable investment of energy. There results a sense of restrained favor in the playing which makes up for occasional lapses in comic timing. A great deal of good-natured conviction appears on stage inSchweyk, and from the standpoint again of didactic theater, nothing is so important as this. John Tatlock as Schweyk and Gerard Shepherd as his gluttonous companion Baloun are admirable, though I wished in each case for certain qualities of size, and especially of what can only be called earthiness--which only actors of considerably more...