Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quincy and Adams are de-emphasizing student work, and featuring other artistic attractions as the major focus of their festivals. This raises special problems: "Perhaps the Harvard community doesn't need an arts festival of the performing arts," contends Tom MacKenzie '66, co-chairman of the Quincy House Arts Festival. "There are so many activities in the performing arts at Harvard already that the House festival in this area must compete with other activities going on all year...
Another advantage of the festival is that it enhances programming that might otherwise be overlooked in the notice columns and underattended in the House common rooms. The festival of the performing arts can focus attention on a series of unusual performances which would appear less attractive if isolated...
...material with which it deals. Because there is no defined plot, the girls must all develop their own individual stories--and there are simply too many of them for the screen. In its desire to tell the story a la McCarthy, the film tries to cram everything into its focus; so much of the book must be told via telephone conversations and alumnae jottings. But where the movie succeeds, aside from the fine acting, is in giving the audience a visual taste of the 1930's from the floppy hats and long dresses to the "modern" furniture with which...
...House Rules Committee, is seeking his 19th House term, faces a Democratic opponent for the first time in more than a decade. State Assemblyman George C. Rawlings, 44, a Fredericksburg attorney and avowed liberal, plans to make Smith's obstructionism on civil rights and other contemporary issues the focus of his campaign. Moderate State Senator William B. Spong, 45, is attempting to oust U.S. Senator Absalom Willis Robertson, 78, and Alexandria Attorney Armistead Boothe is trying for the seat of U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd...
...Focus of the student protest in Boston was a stiff new regime imposed on St. John's by Monsignor Lawrence Riley, whom Cushing named as rector last summer. A conservative in church matters, Riley rejected a list of outside lecturers the students wanted to hear, and reinstated the all-Latin Mass. Both Riley and Cushing ignored letters, signed by 20 senior seminarians, asking for a discussion of the changes...