Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States to accept is the idea that the NLF and the People's Revolutionary Government will be controlling South Vietnam and will need and deserve reconstructive aid. Thieu's government should stop trying to hold on to Saigon: surrender will avoid needless bloodshed. And the United States should focus it efforts on massive humanity aid to be administered by the PRG in its attempt to rebuild the shattered nation. If people want to leave Vietnam the should be allowed to but the primary American responsive now is to help the PRG's reconstructive efforts...
...focus of attention was Tony Conigliaro, who returned to baseball after a three-year absence. Tony c., the Sax designated hitter, exhibiting the sarne flair for the dramatie he has exhibited throughout his career, punched a clean line drive single on his first time at bat in three years to the thunderous approval of the Fenway crowed Conigliaro didn't fare as well in his other times at bat, grounding our three times...
...with wings that "shine like rainbows in the air"--but the piece seems to rely on its simplicity. Where Mitchell clutters her pieces with long breathless lines that are more prose than verse. Waldman sticks closely to rhyme scheme and metrics. Here the simplicity help to focus on the piano and its sound gives you a paradoxical sense of the freedom of love while Waldman cries...
...austere, stately structure of travertine and glass. There were comfortable plush chairs and, most significant musically, 106 panels suspended from the ceiling to diffuse sound waves for maximum - it was hoped - acoustical excellence. They did not do the job. The sound was dry, weak in bass, lacking in focus...
...easy to imagine the shows as great emperor-without-clothes scenes--the critics and collectors, as Tom Wolfe writes, "now squinting, now popping the eye sockets open, now drawing back, now moving closer--waiting, waiting, forever waiting for...it...for it to come into focus, namely the visual reward (for so much effort) which must be there, which every (tout le monde) knew to be there--waiting for something to radiate directly from the paintings...