Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Following are excerpts from the "Boston Memo," a statement circulated by 13 Harvard and Boston area SDS members to SDS chapters at Eastern colleges. The paper served as a focus for discussions in the conferences which preceded last weekend's Spring Mobilization.-Ed. note...
...were getting sick of the merino-joke re-runs, they have disappeared to make room for almost entirely new copy. Not only that, but in the "games" theme the Lampoon has found a big, bright, hard-to-miss bullseye. With a theme, and a fairly simple one, to focus on, the Poonies are on target more often than usual. Most of the six or seven games they have invented are mildly funny-sometimes very mildly-but at least the average is better than usual...
...lines. Today's humor, on the contrary, has no story line-no sequence. It is usually a compressed overlay of stories." The electronic joke, in other words, is the pun. The humor arises from the superimposition of different ideas. The book-age man, listening with eyes that can only focus on one idea at a time, is indifferent to the pun. McLuhan spends a good deal of time explaining Joyce's word-plays, but he also contributes a number of his own: "all the world's a sage," "movies: the reel world," and "the medium is the massage," for example...
...record meeting with students and faculty members will each center on one topic, unlike sessions with previous Honorary Associates, according to Miss Doris H. Kearns, coordinator of O'Brien's visit and a teaching fellow in Government. Students and staff members of the Institute felt that earlier sessions lacked focus and were repetitious...
Giraudoux's play needs Miss Singewald. Its concave philosophy -- the rich, destructive, conformist bad guys against the poor, poetic good guys -- wouldn't float in the Dead Sea without a strong focus on the heroine. For example, it all comes right in the second act, as three madwomen (Miss Singewald, Valerie Clark, and Carla Barringer) amicably enter Miss Singewald's basement to plan the elimination of the world's evil men. They attack each other, apologize, criticize, contradict, dare, resolve, shift positions, and conclude as amicably as when they came in. And in the end, the world's evil...