Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military position on the Continent. One reason he can afford to do so, of course, is that the threat of Russian aggression has subsided, largely because the U.S. presence has made Europe too risky and unrewarding a field for Russian adventure. As Defense Secretary Robert McNamara points out: "The focus of the U.S. defense problem has shifted perceptibly toward the Far East." There, the U.S. not only has committed some 330,000 men in and around South Viet Nam, but also faces the threat of indefinite Red Chinese intransigence and of fresh guerrilla wars. While a few Americans, particularly...
Bland & Bleak. Historically, the artists acknowledge a debt to the Russian constructivists, and have words of praise for the industrial approach of such sculptors as Alexander Calder and the late David Smith. They wax hot for Geodetic Architect Buckminster Fuller. Their enthusiasm for painters tends to focus on Barnett Newman, whose works are uncompromising vertical stripes, and Ad Reinhardt, whose severely dark-hued abstracts look almost jet black...
...explained that some seniors feel that if a small number of girls are not receiving honors, it is unfair to them to focus the ceremony on academic honors. The letter notes that "the argument in favor of the present system is that the academic ceremony should give recognition to academic achievement...
Miss Cheever has talked informally with about 60 seniors, of whom about 90 per cent favor the change, she said. She has written to all seniors asking that those who have "strong opinions" for or against the proposal contact her. The letter explains that some girls feel that "the focus of attention at Commencement should not be on these academic categories, especially since such a large percentage of the class will receive honors...
Director Varda exempts exempts François both from praise and condemnation. She merely accepts his behavior as an inexorable fact of life, and dramatizes it bewitchingly in unforced New Cinema style, using abrupt cuts and soft focus to suggest the spontaneous electricity generated by lovers, repeating one action several times to underscore the emotional impact of a scene. The film's conceptual flaw is in the character of the carpenter, a prefabrication rather obviously nailed onto a thesis. Socially and psychologically in limbo, freely indulging his impulses, François may be intended as a natural Everyman...