Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covert action by the CIA, though he does not mind "having spies in the Kremlin, in the P.L.O., and in the Portuguese army. We need a professional CIA and we should give back its dignity." He admires Pat Moynihan's tough approach to the Third World. He would focus foreign policy on a "few geographical areas that are important to our national interest and not get involved in brushfire wars." He advocates substantial cuts in the defense budget and wants a "lean and efficient" military...
...Germany. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger broods about this new Red menace in background talks with newsmen and in conferences with aides and U.S. ambassadors, at which he has called the Communists the Trojan horses of totalitarianism and NATO officials meet secretly to discuss the Communist threat. The focus of the debate: How dangerous would it be if the Communists came to power and what should and could be done to prevent...
Barlach's woodcuts, from the permanent collections of the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger, have been rotating around his sculpture, the "Seated Girl," all year. A new acquisition, the "Seated Girl" is indeed the focus of attention, but the latest series of prints to be arrayed around her is as intriguing as its title...
Couple that with the fact that the Crimson roundballers were equally adept at losing to horrible teams and good teams, and Harvard's recent season comes into focus as one of the worst in the last few decades...
...chewed up," as the whites say, first into the "rotten meat" of miscegenation, then the "bloody meat" of retribution. But if revolutionaries are depraved charlatans, imperialists are incompetent almoners, and revolutions are fitful little altercations, what is Naipaul saying about legitimate struggles for independence from imperialistic, capitalist nations? His focus on the personal problems of his actors--his obsession with Roche's attitude toward authority and Jimmy's sexuality--might be misconstrued as a reactionary response to the larger issues, and an effort to obscure his vision in tiny problems...