Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their tan." For James Galanos, the bare midriff means skimpy bra tops worn with long evening skirts. Bare midriffs are also fine by Mollie Parnis, who links together the bra tops with silk knots or a big ring. Donald Brooks adds demure long sleeves and a high neckline to focus more attention on his bare midriffs, which expose a good ten inches of tummy and torso...
...Program also provides for professors from the four Atlanta colleges to teach at the 19 mainly Northern and Western institutions which have joined the project. But the sponsors say that exchanges will not always be possible, and the focus of the program is on bringing scholars to Atlanta...
...most telling events of modern history has been a revolution in the relationship of religion to Western civilization. The churchgoer could once take comfort in the fact that he belonged to what was essentially a Christian society, in which the existence of an omnipotent God was the focus of ultimate meaning. No such security exists today, in a secular-minded culture that suggests the eclipse rather than the presence...
...meanings of the grandest sort: the contraction of the future, the falsification of memory, the decay of language, the failure of human potential, and the persistence of human dignity. Yet the movement of the act in which this content is implicit seems to lack internal discipline, to meander where focus should be asserted, to court nonsense and boredom for their own sweet, seductive sakes...
...consistent rhetoric is deceptive. Although the term and focus of the argument have remained the same, each side has continually shifted its position in the last four months. It's hard to know where RUS and the Council are today without also knowing how they got there...