Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about blacks held by many whites -that they can be lazy, foulmouthed deadbeats addicted to alcohol, gambling and promiscuity. Another aspect of black drama is that it bears a surprising relationship to the class-conscious plays of the '30s. The manner is naturalistic. The tone is hortatory. The focus is not on individuals but on a downtrodden group undergoing a consciousness-raising exercise...
...opposition of what Robinson terms "the overwhelming African voice" was retorted 14 hours later by the seizure. The Administration's efforts to bluff by injunction were similarly answered and the seizure became an occupation, outside the law, and for the moment at least, no longer in the focus of national attention...
...advisers all agreed that the success of the drive hinges largely on Muskie's performance in Pennsylvania and Ohio. "If he gets his brains knocked out in Pennsylvania, he'll be crippled almost to obliteration," admitted one adviser. The new strategy also calls for a more forceful focus on the issues. There will be considerably less hand pumping at plant gates and in beer halls; instead Muskie will appear on TV interview and telephone talk shows, and limit his speeches to a few selected audiences...
...bulging, beer in one hand, cigar in the other. He trails mumbled epithets about practically every race, creed or color. He is Archie Bunker of the All in the Family show, the tube's quintessential boob, who each week shrivels bigotry with laughter. Yet to the editors of Focus, the Teamsters' official newsletter, Archie, like the anti-hero of the movie Joe, is just another example of how TV and the press distort the image of the working man. In a recent issue, an editorial thunders: "For some reason, the writers of those shows decided the average worker...
Silkscreen posters advertising the strike meeting curiously, though according to some antiwar planners inexplicably, began to focus on action against two wars--one in Vietnam, one in Angola where Gulf has substantial investments. And when dawn broke Thursday, two dozen black students from Afro and the Pan African Liberation Committee took the initiative, seizing Massachusetts Hall. There they remain, in what is by far the longest building occupation in Harvard's activist era. University Hall, brutally cleared by waves of police after students had held the building for hardly 15 hours in 1969, provides little comparison for the Mass Hall...