Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortas finally became the hapless focus of conservative unrest over court decisions on pornography and the rights of criminal suspects. The attack developed into an assault on the whole Warren court, impairing its prestige severely in the process (see THE LAW). Last week the nomination that once looked like a sure thing went down to an embarrassing defeat...
...well; last year, Barry Goldwater donated his personal library to the college At Prescott, says President Nairn, who served as a New Zealand fighter pilot during World War II and holds a Ph. D. from Yale, "we are taking our past concepts of learning and giving them a new focus by which we can come close to the objective of that ancient Chinese aphorism: To have roots but to soar like an eagle...
...feeling that his presence is essential in the lives of most of the characters. He now just hovers about at a distance. Singer's tragedy--the fact that he never really becomes a part of his friends' lives--is clearer. But the resulting film has no structural focus...
...police uptight. Instead of lashing out, the Sausalito cop is now apt to ask coolly: "What do you want to go and provoke me for?" Significantly, no one has lodged a complaint against Sausalito police in two years. Their hostilities under control, the men are also freer to focus on serious crimes-residential burglaries and auto thefts have been cut in half. In similar sessions with local citizens, Houston cops are trying hard to understand minority-group problems...
Bespectacled Ray Kroll, 18, of College Springs, Wash., the Army private who is the focus for all the activities, sat quietly today near the altar reading a magazine, occasionally answering a question put to him. Several times he disappeared into the basement for a rest...