Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most members of the primarily white Lowell Lecture Hall audience last night agreed that their focus should be toward changing the structure of racist institutions, concentrating on white suburbs and on Harvard...
During the last four years King's tactics wore less well than his moral vision. The movement outgrew the original focus of his energy on the South. King's year of urban organizing in Chicago was a chronicle of unproductive frustrations. The poor peoples' march on Washington he was planning for this Spring was tactically a last stand--a test of whether he had become an anachronism as a Black leader...
...spent that evening in a meeting with two dozen top strategists of the New Left. They urged him to focus the anti-war sentiment in the country by running for President...
...image, Stroke explains, every geometrical point on the photographed object should produce a corresponding point on the film. But existing optical systems, instead of producing points, project tiny spots, each of which consists of alternating light and dark concentric circles, or diffraction patterns. If the optical system is in focus, the circles are small. But if it is out of focus, the circles are large and overlap each other, causing blurring...
...soon as he has perfected his technique, Stroke says, holographic deblurring should become invaluable in salvaging out-of-focus pictures from deep space probes, balloon flights, aerial reconnaissance and other photographic missions that are difficult to repeat. Eventually, Stroke's process may be used to bring a professional sharpness to the pictures of even the most inept amateur photographer...