Word: focusing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is another factor that might affect the election. The NLRB will decide during the summer whether the Medical Area is an appropriate unit. If it determines that it is, and if a Harvard appeal fails, assuming Harvard appeals at all, the hearings will enter a second phase. The focus of that phase will be to decide which classifications of employees should be part of the union. Conceivably, a large group of employees who support the union and have signed cards will be eliminated, particularly if the NLRB rules that employees classified as Research Assistant II--a group of paraprofessionals...
...Ballet has wonderful dancers. But it frowns on stars and remains a choreographer's company, mainly in the Balanchine mold. Too much of a good thing has resulted in high-quality, efficient but somehow uninvolved evenings. The return of prodigal Suzanne Farrell from five years abroad, plus increasing focus on Choreographer Jerome Robbins' wide-ranging talents, may create some needed excitement...
...repatriation of Vietnamese refugees is not the issue, and neither is the competence of the U.S. to act as a judicial body evaluating the merits of individual Vietnamese. The real problem is whether or not the U.S. will divert its humanitarian efforts away from what should be their real focus--the reconstruction of the land we ravaged and the people we tore apart--to the comforting of the defeated lieutenants who carried out our policies. That would only compound our already grievous record of injury to the Vietnamese people...
...grades at Harvard and elsewhere is often overlooked. With the waning of campus political activism, many students have simply been working harder. Teaching methods have improved (we are told); course requirements have been relaxed. The increasingly pre-professional orientation on college campuses has been responsible for an increasing focus on course work and achieving high grades...
...most crucial: West's tone of level rage and tilted compassion, his ability to make human even the most grotesque mockery. The novel, a series of interrelated sketches, does not have the strong narrative that lends itself best to film adaptation. So this movie has trouble finding a focus. The protagonist is Tod Hackett (William Atherton), an aspiring artist who works in the production department of a major studio. Hackett also nourishes a private vision of cataclysm, which he wants to get on canvas and call The Burning of Los Angeles. It is good to know this in advance...