Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Titled "Social Class and Social Dancing", the article described a study of 16 Chicago dance halls. Cottle's "choreographic voyeurs," as Barnes called them, interviewed or observed more than 100 people in 30 sessions. While concluding that for all classes "about 60 years have been required for the focus of the dancer's libido to travel from her feet up through her knees and on to the pelvis where it presently resides," Cottle emphasized the difference in upper, middle and lower class approaches to dancing...
Fairbank: The Vietnam war, of course, has become a focus for the line-up against Peking, and vice-versa--the occasion on which we glare at each other. If there weren't the Vietnam war, what would there be in place of it? You'd expect that there would be something. And the mood in Peking, at the moment, of pushing into Burma and Nepal, and all these various things, suggests that the Chinese side would not be content with an American presence in say, Thailand, even if it were not in Vietnam. The problem is to choose your ground...
...SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "I Am A Soldier," John Secondari's excellent documentary, follows Captain Theodore S. Danielson as he leads Company A, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment in combat against the Viet Cong. Repeat...
...draft will continue to be the major focus for SDS agitation against the war, Spiegel said. He said that the June convention adopted by far the strongest antidraft resolution SDS has made. The statement advocated carrying the draft campaign into the army to preach desertion...
...SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Southern Accents in Northern Ghettos" compares Negro family life on Chicago's West Side with that in the rural South...