Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Representatives of the Committee to Draft Gavin and of the office of Senator Eugene McCarthy will speak on the primaries and the 1968 elections on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Leverett House Old Library, in a meeting sponsored by FOCUS...
...Senate-McCarthy has placed his stamp on very little legislation. To some of his colleagues, his sardonic humor is cynicism; his casualness, indifference. Though McCarthy has scant chance of winning the nomination himself, he might, by attracting a sizable antiwar and anti-Johnson vote in the primaries, focus attention on Johnson's weakness and open the way for another candidate-his friend and colleague Robert Kennedy, for example...
Having said all this, I would want to add that the object of struggle against this terrible war is elsewhere than Harvard. To focus obsessively, as some have shown signs of doing, on this community and its local problems is a solipsistic and fundamentally irrelevant diversion from the political arena, where even now one may yet strike blows for peace. Martin Peretz Instructor in Social Studies
...training program is the main focus of Alliance's present efforts. Many Roxbury youths are not eligible for the programs run by private industry. They complain that job programs of ABCD (Boston's poverty program) channel trainees into non-profit organizations, where they have little chance for future advancement...
According to this radical critique, not only are the issues of The Freedom Budget out of focus but the organizing methods are misguided...