Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive to make the program flexible has raised problems. Without a set program, some teachers feel a bit lost. Many in math are uncertain whether to focus on material directly related to school or to conduct an enrichment program. Since each class ends up learning different things, the program has no continuity from year to year...
...works shown no longer exists; it was a series of projections from a machine called Clavilux, which its inventor, Thomas Wilfred, has since dismantled. Fortunately, before doing so. he photographed the projections. Not an easy thing to do, as our lensmen learned when they tried to focus on the moving, blinking, flashing machines. Said Photographer Frank Lerner: "To give the idea of light in motion was a difficult assignment because there is no such thing as a norm." He repeatedly went back for retakes; his subjects never looked the same. "I came back so often that I began to feel...
...increased speed is the greatly increased area of visual perception during fixation. On this point the traditionalists do not have to invent new tests. They can waive the results of scientific research which have proved the retina can bring only one inch of a printed line into clear focus...
...threat of a coalition between Papandreou's Center Union party and the moderates of a the National Radical Union that forced the Army's hand. Much of the past conflict between Constantine and Papandreou has developed from the power and political allegiance of the Army. It became the focus of suspicion and drove the factions to extremes...
...afternoon very soon. This was a mistake, for a Be-In cannot be organized or planned or stage: it can just be. If we organized the organic flow of Cambridge life into a fixed structure, if we planned a program of events, if we set up a stage to focus all attention, if we exhorted everyone to come to a definite place at a definite time for everyone to come to a definite reason, the result might be lovely -- but it would...