Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With this joint contract, the A-200 students initially hoped to get Operation Schoolhouse to think about metropolitan vocational training, while helping MAPC get a concrete focus for efforts at regional cooperation. But the contradictory demands of the two contractors have forced the students in A-200 to split into two groups. By April Operation Schoolhouse wants comprehensive specifications for a vocational high school on a site already tentatively selected. But the outcome of the MAPC research may be that Boston needs a scattered series of schools, or that Boston should construct its job training programs in conjunction with other...
...main problem with all these reports on vocational education is that they focus on the status quo and aim at limited changes. In part, this orientation is justified by the political and economic barriers to a whole new concept of vocational training. But there are strong arguments that vocational schools can never be very effective, and that cities should give all funds for job training directly to industry...
...talents into modest successes. Individually their efforts have been distributed over the hurdles, 600 yard run, 1000, mile and two-mile. But it is in the relays that balanced strength can lead to the big time, and it is these relays in big-city Gardens that will be the focus of attention in the eight weeks before Harvard faces another team challenge...
...erratic in his attempts to use stage business in harness with Shakespeare's verbal wit or verbal wisdom. Often he finds success in pointing a line with a gesture, but sometimes too, his compositions are simply too full of movement for good focus. On a few occasions, he has literally obscured potentially funny or significant dialog by drawing the audience's attention to some simultaneous comic bit. In a single instance, he shows an excess of reverence to the lines, freezing an admirably raucous forest banquet to a tableau, while Jaques (Kenneth Tiger) puts the "Seven Ages of Men" through...
...Office of Economic Opportunity's establishment of 40 neighborhood legal centers in eastern Massachusetts has also contributed to the Bureau's new focus, Miss Siemer said. Fourteen of the centers are in Boston...