Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When two persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus all their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exercise stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works...
...Institute for Defense Analyses, a civilian research arm of the Government, seems to have replaced the CIA and Dow Chemical Co. as a focus of academic antiwar protests. Under pressure from students and faculty alike, President George W. Beadle last week canceled the University of Chicago's affiliation with the Institute. University ties with IDA have also come under fire at Columbia, Princeton and Michigan...
...abyss of existence itself, which in their view is stingingly futile, innately unjust and thoroughly absurd. In the future it may be said that they held a broken mirror up to the nature of the age, but for now they have rendered Miller obsolete by altering the central focus of theater from sociology to metaphysics...
...ultimate aims of politics or social analysis have "become transformed from a focus on man's needs and potentialities to a focus on systems maintenance," Bay said...
...Harvard Glee Club Organization is diversifying its singing groups to widen the focus of musical opportunities at Harvard, Elliot Forbes '40, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music and conductor of the Glee Club announced yesterday...