Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applications for U.N. membership-vetoed last summer by the U.S., which has opposed admitting Saigon and Hanoi unless South Korea is also admitted. On the agenda are also the status of the U.N. Command in South Korea and the Cyprus issue -potentially controversial items. But the main focus of the session will be the proper relationship-and responsibilities-of the rich and poor nations, and there an apparently constructive dialogue has already begun...
Students at the Law School began last Tuesday to participate in a course which will focus on the lowest level of the judicial system by offering them direct experience as law clerks in district courts...
...past two months, a bitter division within the Armed Forces Movement had brought government in Portugal to a virtual standstill and the country perilously close to civil war. Focus of the dispute was General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 54, a close ally of Communist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal and a woolly-minded Marxist ideologue who favored the creation in Portugal of a socialist state along Eastern European lines. Last week in an apparent victory for moderate forces within the M.F.A., Gonçalves fell from power. In the face of virtually open rebellion by non-Communist officers...
...missed. Organized by Art Historian Esin Atil, from the encyclopedic stores of the gallery's own collection, the show contains 80 objects, many of superb aesthetic interest, ranging across a period of 800 years. It does not include Turkish or Persian work. As the name implies, the focus is on Arab art as such−mainly from Syria, Egypt and Iraq...
...psychologies," he declared, "are individualistically hedonistic, explaining all human behavior in terms of individual pleasure and pain, individual needs and drives." They not only describe man as selfishly motivated, but "implicitly or explicitly teach that he ought to be so." Campbell called on psychologists to broaden "our narrowly individualistic focus" and to begin studying social systems with the assumption of "an underlying wisdom in the recipes for living that tradition has supplied us." They might, he said, be "better tested than the best of psychology's and psychiatry's speculations on how lives should be lived...