Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lowenstein also criticized the narrow focus of the national media and the indifference of black and Puerto Rican communities toward McGovern...
...Mosley is also in the process of cutting the faculty by about a third. In addition, the seminary is phasing out its School of Sacred Music and overhauling its Master of Divinity program-which, like the rest of Union's curriculum, President Mosley concedes, has "lacked a clear focus...
...investigation will focus Cabot Hall because of allegations by students that locks on outside and hallway doors can be easily picked and that root windows do not lock properly...
...progressive entanglement of the three figures--they become inseparable friends a la Jules et Jim--makes the original writing project more and more problematic until it is abandoned altogether. At this point, the focus shifts entirely to the characters themselves. But here, as always. Tanner's method depends on calculated understatement, and the complex triangle of interrelationships is always submerged, never obtrusive...
...boxing ring provides a perfect focus for the psychological concerns of Fat City. The sport's appeal to its audience consists largely in the opportunity it affords the spectator to project his own hostilities onto the aggressions of the fighters. Each contender can do what the spectator cannot: conquer his weaker opponent with sheer strength and agility in face-to-face combat before a crowd obligingly roaring its approval. It is also true that the fighters and managers use one another. Each boxer's value is proportional to the number of other boxers he can defeat. For the trainer...