Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little resistance from those who had originally opposed Medieros's firing. "The past really hasn't been a part of the present at all. We seemed to have moved in at a time when there's an interest in developing programs. There's been a shift in focus of the student population from a definite issue orientation of the late 60's, to the present period which seems to be more reflective...
...SEARS TOWER, the Great Refractor, around which the HCO developed, is the focus of Open Nights, when interested outsiders are shown around the precincts. The Observatory ignores...
...disjointed approach: one moment Kearns is describing in the first person her relationship with Johnson; next she goes into descriptions of his childhood and emotional development; and from there she discusses his political career, really quite conventionally. The thread that is supposed to run through it all is a focus on Johnson as a person, but the trail often grows faint...
...Antonio and the strife-ridden fields of the San Joaquin Valley by 3000 miles, politicized Chicanos encounter a dilemna at Harvard--the absence of issues that directly concern their community. While some RAZA members do participate in UFW-sponsored pickets of local supermarkets, the organization has chosen to focus its energies on recruiting to expand the size of the Chicano community on campus...
Chicanos are most vocal in their criticism regarding the third phase of the process--the actual admission of Chicanos. Calls for institutionalization of the system always focus on one specific demand, the hiring of a full-time Chicano admissions official. Harvard has only chosen to hire Esteban Arrequin, a third-year student at the School of Education, as an assistant to the Committee on Admissions. While Arrequin does exercise a vote on each Chicano applicant, he is the first to acknowledge the inadequacy of Harvard's gesture. Arrequin works on a part-time basis at. Byerly Hall, spending...