Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overcome by limiting oneself to those segments of each class that are directly linked to the processes of economic production, i.e., to those groups whose economic interests completely encompass the inner-most, primary level of the working of the American economy. Thus the crucial sub-classes to focus on are the Rich--all senior business executives, the Technostructure-Rich--junior business executives, engineers, technicians and scientists in the big corporations, and the Workers--all the people who work in factories (that's what they still are no matter how civilized the conditions) producing consumer goods and war material, all construction...
...terms of settlement named a state-appointed trustee, Associate Education Commissioner Herbert F. Johnson, for the experimental Ocean Hill-Brownsville decentralized district, which was the focus of the dispute; he will remain in charge of the area's eight schools until tensions have relaxed. Three principals named by the Ocean Hill-Brownsville local board were suspended from their jobs pending a court decision on the legality of their appointments. A three-man committee was designated to hear teachers' complaints. U.F.T. Leader Albert Shanker won reinstatement for 79 of his teachers who had been transferred out of the district...
...ironic that your article "Universities: Joining the Real World," appears next to "Literature: Mr. Wilson's War" [Nov. 1]. If those who consider themselves literary scholars and critics would focus on the whole literary work and give perspective to students, then the world's literary masterpieces could again perform their unique function, speaking to all men at all times about man's condition. There is nothing "aloof" about Sophocles' Oedipus, and Dante, despite his terza rima, was in there dealing with the nitty-gritty of his day. It's time our scholars met the challenge...
...switch to a more idealistic question--ROTC, this semester-- is the best example of its current renaissance. Just as many Harvard students have, to some extent, left their famous apathy behind in search of seeking peace of mind in an unjust world, so HUC members have changed their focus from an issue of personal freedom to one of more abstract social morality...
...reticence is advisable, resilience is crucial. Losers should always focus not on what might have been but on what still can be. In both fiction and life, Ernest Hemingway displayed the good loser's grace under pressure and sheer joy in struggle. "I am a little beat up," he reported after a serious air crash in 1954, "but I assure you it is only temporary." Overall, he may have lacked the truly good loser's ability to anticipate defeat and keep alternate courses open...