Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is no complaint, there is no entrapment," says a complacent New York City police attorney. Yale Law Professor Joseph Goldstein believes the potential for improper police actions is inevitable as long as the defendant's criminal predisposition is the critical issue. Instead, he writes, judges should focus on "the appropriateness or offensiveness of the police conduct," with emphasis on disapproving actions "that would be criminal for the private citizen." Justice Felix Frankfurter agreed. "The crucial question," he said, "is whether the police conduct ... falls below standards, to which common feelings respond, for the proper use of Government power...
...Hollywood. The special effects are rather more elaborate, but not necessarily more convincing. When our hero and heroine encounter a cuddlesome old hermit (Peter Ustinov) living on the outside in the gutted U.S. Capitol, they seem to be trapped in some unstable photographic solution, shifting in and out of focus as if the whole image were being washed around in a developing pan. The great domed city of the future is rather too obviously a model- it looks like part of an electric train set- and its main thoroughfare resembles a suburban shopping mall. Indeed, pushing their vision...
Several students interviewed yesterday said they now view the course with a 'do or die' attitude. Under the previous system, they said, students could work at their own pace and did not have to focus as much energy on retaining knowledge from completed units...
Some of the witnesses who spoke for and against the research at the council last week were far less commendable. These scientists had the opportunity to focus on the true hazards and benefits of the research. They could have stated their goals objectively and clearly. But few on either side took that path...
...from the playing of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" between acts, Edelman has directed The Devil's Disciple without undue bicentennial self-consciousness. His cast goes through its paces against a background of colonial oranges and browns that dominate Donald Soule's carefully-crafted sets, and the play's focus properly remains on individual, rather than national, transformation...