Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still a long way from being able or willing to exercise full membership in an earlier American concept of a five-power world. In the past two years, the U.S. has lavished most of its attention on the Soviet and Chinese sides of that political pentangle. By switching the focus back to Europe, Nixon and Kissinger may hope to stimulate European unity and the growth of a still missing sense of global engagement. For the U.S., Kissinger's address meant a shift away from Viet Nam to more permanent priorities. For Europe, ready or not, it means that...
...that in addition to whatever rights might come from the capacity that the fetus has for suffering, it also represents a value. It represents the locus of human striving (the human strivings of others than the fetus) and the instrumentalities of human strivings. The fetus does represent a potential focus of human affections and relationships, of human capacities and the like. These values are, however, the values of presently fully rational beings...
...important values. To destroy the manuscript, the painting, is a serious injury to those values. But it does not violate the rights of the entity destroyed. The painting's rights have not been injured when it was destroyed. In the same way, one might recognize the fetus as a focus of value without yet ascribing rights to the fetus. The consequence of this argument is that the kinds of treatment that might be accorded to the fetus will allow for arguments of balancing one value against another which are entirely inappropriate where rights are in question...
...horror of infanticide might be accommodated within my argument in several ways: first, our growing uncertainty as the infant grows about the point where rudimentary rational capacities actually set in. Second, the fact that the infant represents a much more intense focus of value than does the fetus by virtue, if nothing else, of its greater capacities and potential, but also by virtue of its more visible presence. (I am clear that its visible presence could not be used to create or extinguish rights if they existed by virtue of another argument. If the fetus has rights, the fact that...
...film which explores the motivations for a political killing must first eliminate any suspense about the final outcome. If it does not, the audience will focus too much on the question will he be killed, rather than on the questions why he was killed. Thus within the first few minutes, the audience discovers Philip Micheal Santore (Montand) dead in the back seat of an old Cadillac. The outcome is never in doubt and audience attention can then be turned to the reasons for his death...