Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Faculty Council meets this week to reconsider the various programs, it should approve the more liberal 12-12 plan. But the Faculty should focus its greatest attention on more fundamental ways of reconciling the students' need for flexibility with the Faculty's demand for "minimum standards." The best way to do this is by expanding the department's Independent Study program. By making Independent Study more attractive and more easily available, the department can give the students the freedom they need while maintaining the standards the School wants...
...culpability of drivers probably has the effect of lessening anxiety about the driving task: if accidents are the fault of drivers, then the individual has some control over his future. The gods of the highway punish only those who behave badly. It is also possible to speculate that this focus of attention on the responsibility of those who purchase and operate motor vehicles has had the further utility of distracting attention from the responsibilities of those who manufacture and sell them. In any event, the traffic safety legislation of 1966 adopted a different perspective, and recently tremendous attention has been...
...always been hoped that the two groups would work complementarily," Rosenthal said. "The ACLU is not equipped to focus on the number or variety of cases that we'll handle...
...tenements across the street. Or are they empty? They are, but such is the skill of the brushwork that the observer feels compelled to look again. "I always want there to be a chance for the viewer to see more," says Nesbitt. "I feel a painting should become a focus point for meditation like a mandala...
Zoos & Pumpkins. By combining glamour and one-stop convenience, the shopping centers have become the focus not only of retailing activity but of much community culture and recreational life. In addition to restaurants, banks, a post office, movie theaters, skating rinks and often a free auditorium for club meetings or amateur plays, the centers entice auto-borne families with a busy schedule of attractions. There are fashion shows and symphony concerts, pumpkin-judging contests and senior proms, reptile-club snake exhibits and "petting zoos" (for animals tame enough for tots to touch). Porpoises sometimes frolic in the 80-ft. pool...