Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps something more general and therapeutic as well. Masters and Johnson's physiological approach in all their work has drawn much fire from those who rightly point out that there is more to human affection than rates of orgasm. But that same narrow focus on biology has given to many readers both knowledge and a sense of legitimacy about sex that they never had, and that can be a liberation for men and women of any persuasion...
...Jazz Celebration series is a performance by piano-vibes artist Karl Berger and the "Woodstock Orchestra." These musicians are associated with the Creative Music Studio, which was founded by Berger along with Ornette Coleman to provide alternatives in music education. The CMS headquarters in Woodstock, New York provides a focus for a Woodstock jazz community that is growing both in size and vitality. A two hour drive from downtown Manhattan, Woodstock is home for a stable of musicians that includes Berger and Jack DeJohnette, and the town has been a rest/retreat spot for scores of others. It shouldn...
...Hydra Head, Fuentes departs from his customary focus. He formerly wrote historical novels, such as Terra Nostra and Change of Skin, about the betrayal of the Mexican Revolution's ideals by its bourgeois leadership. He blended Aztec and Roman Catholic mythology, Marxism and experimental literary techniques in his criticism of Mexican society. In The Hydra Head, however, Fuentes concerns himself with Mexico's role in the international economic and political realm, rather than with its internal problems...
...departing from this tradition, Stanislaw Lem shifted his focus from society to the individual. He considers his early utopian novels too optimistic and naive, and in his mature works he is interested in the subjective view of the individual as he tries to cope with a reality he cannot understand. And although his novels are often set in futuristic or chimerical landscapes, Lem's characters are in essence real-life men facing problems familiar to every reader...
...museum show. Rowell has done the job with tonic intelligence, bringing together 114 sculptures done between 1912 and 1932 by 39 artists: French, Spanish, German, Hungarian, Russian, Italian and American. She has traced sculpture's passage from closed mass to open form with a precision of focus and a variety of little-known works that no earlier effort has matched. This may be the most important show of modernist sculpture in the past ten years...