Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eclipsing, Einstein predicted, the nearer star would create a lens-like effect that would actually intensify the image of the eclipsed star, increasing its brightness perhaps more than 1,000 times. The phenomenon would be caused by the closer star's strong gravitational field, which would deflect and focus light from the distant star...
...crucial challenge facing the civil rights movement is to make legal equality meaningful in economic and educational terms. The change of focus was emphasized by last week's announcement that James Farmer would resign March 1 as national director of the Congress of Racial Equality to head a new anti-poverty group, the Center for Community Action Education...
Lean's feeling was that nothing could defeat him but an inability to match Bolt's script and measure up somehow to the looming background figure of Pasternak. For although Bolt and Lean had simplified the novel to bring the love story into bright focus, Lean still had to cope with the evocation of revolutionary Russia and the land itself. "I don't think this is so much a novel," says Bolt, "as an enormous disguised poem...
...fitful job to another, improvisations without issue; dreamed my sumptuous dreams of canopied barges on the Nile and throbbing Bentleys in Biarritz; woke with strangers in dank attics; nursed the one undarned, too tightly fitting suit-and plotted my escape. Try as I may, I cannot bring into focus the young man of 20. If we were to meet today, we would have little to say to each other. [There would be] his ruthless naiveté, his clammy embarrassments, his lyrical sensitivity in the throes of his own emotions, his stoic indifference toward the feelings of others...
...That the "coterie of middle-aging Catholic college alumnae" then dominating "the ranks of Legion reviewers" [Dec. 3] should be "expanded to include knowledgeable lay and clerical film buffs" was first proposed in my "Hollywood in Focus" column during the 1940s. As one of a dwindling minority of "moderates" among the Legion's lay consulters, I am somewhat loosely characterized in your otherwise excellent story. It is my position that, by faulty communications with Hollywood moviemakers and critical bias in favor of morally and ideologically debatable foreign films, the Legion has now reached the point of surrender to forces...