Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard, students and workers were actively struggling for democratic rights. The 1969 struggle by Afro-American and white students won the Afro-American Studies Department. 1970 witnessed the struggle led by Afro-American students for more minorities hired on sites of University construction. Affirmative Action only represented a nzw focus for democratic rights work...
Early moves were made to orient the student movement along the lines of fighting for democratic rights, particularly with a focus on Affirmative Action. A meeting of various groups was held to discuss the possibility of developing such a struggle. While there was some hesitancy at first, the overwhelming mood was that of interest. It became clear that if such a struggle could be successfully mounted, it could become a catalyst for democratic rights work, not only in other areas of Harvard, but possibly at other schools...
...word of what Amin is saying as he babbles away, much of the humor quickly vanishes. And to compound this weakness in approach, there is also a racist slant in the camera work, reminiscent of the worst excesses of Birth of a Nation, exemplified by Schroeder's decision to focus on one of the ministers as he absentmindedly picks his nose. If Schroeder's point here is to demonstrate the absoluteness of Amin's power within his government, or the simplicity of his subordinates, or both, he does not succeed in making that point very poignant. On a superficial level...
Despite the failure of the Christmas project, the endeavor did help to focus public attention on the Square, and it did bring residents together both in the pre-holiday fabrications and perhaps also in the post-mortem vilification of Smith. (Jerry Lane: "Another schmuck...
...addition, both Smith and Lane agree that Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Velluci and the City Council should focus more attention (read: "money") on the Square, by financing further improvements there and by staging more public events there, rather than in Cambridge's hinterlands...