Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the war between Assisi and the rival town of Perugia, his subsequent illness and conversion, the rebuilding of the ruined church of San Damiano, and his trip to Rome to seek advice from Pope Innocent III. Given this limited time-span and the painstaking efforts Zeffirelli makes to focus on the reasons for Francis's conduct, he explains astonishingly little of what was happening in twelfth-century Italy, both according to historical fact and to his own fiction. The war could be any war. A vehicle for top-heavy symbolism, it serves the purpose of contrasting Francis's world...
Many Jesuits see an instauration of Ignatian spirit. Father Lyndon Farwell, a recently ordained California Jesuit, would in fact like to see the upcoming general congregation focus on that ideal by conducting its meeting as a spiritual retreat, with no agenda. It would be "a great witness to the faith of the Jesuits?coming together to see what God wants them to do next. I would like to see them define the spirit and priorities of the society, but it should be a religious, not a legislative, thing...
...Diego, Calif., an inner-city Jesuit parish called Christ the King became the focus of disputes with the local bishop when the Jesuits assigned there twice offered the church as sanctuary to sailors who refused to board Viet Nam-bound vessels...
Institutional investors have been generally slow to take up the activist groups' lead. Only after three years of debating whether institutions should take a stand at all, can advocates now focus on procedures within institutions and on the issues surrounding each resolution, says Susan Gross, director of PCR research and education...
YESTERDAY, the tax returns of millions of Americans came due. Former Senator Fred Harris' New Populist Action group chose yesterday as the focus for demonstrations and teach-ins in cities around the country to convince Congress to change a tax system which favors the rich...