Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best known of them are Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, 73, professor emeritus at M.I.T. and the inventor of strobe photography, and Charles W. Wyckoff, 60, developer of the film used to photograph atomic bomb tests. Their main hope for bringing Nessie into focus rests with a 10-ft. frame that has two large strobe lights at the top. These beam illumination through the peat-darkened waters of Loch Ness for two 35-mm. stereo cameras, a television camera and an SX-70 Polaroid camera...
Harvard is beginning to focus on more distant spots, dispatching an unprecedented number of planners and contractors overseas. With a great deal of excess baggage lying around, funding money rapidly dwindling and job markets tight at home, it seems logical to send people to the same place where all our money went a few years ago--the Mideast, for example...
...review of undergraduate education began, one in which Bok has participated as a member of the committee coordinating Rosovsky's seven task forces. Steiner says that Bok believed no such review could occur before the Pusey-era splits had healed, creating a consensus that would allow the Faculty to focus its energies on undergraduate education. In addition, Bok's readings of educational reviews done elsewhere and his staff's investigations revealed, Steiner says, that the innovations "appeared glamorous on the face of it but weren't working. The last reason Derek would propose something," he adds, "is because it looks...
...instance, readmitted this year a student who last year forged a series of medical school and scholarship recommendations). The media, on the other hand, has feasted on this emerging spectacle; few major publications have failed to make a big splash out of some variation on the theme. Invariably the focus of attention has been on the "victims" of the pressures; those who have crumbled under the weight and been forced to drop out of the race, or those who have been disqualified for unethical or immoral violations of the rules...
What upset Steve the most was that all around him he saw extremely bright individuals who permitted themselves to focus more and more narrowly on their own worlds and become further and further removed from social reality: "To me," he says, "the major thing about a Harvard education is the chance it could give to people to sit back and become concerned with far-reaching questions about our society. Harvard should be breeding people who are going to help this society look at how the pie is divided, not how to get a bigger slice for themselves. Life is more...