Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are a few momentary problems. The cast of ten is so over-dressed as Marimekko-bright Raggedy Anns and Andys that the smallest lapse in the blocking and the stage tends to loss its focus. And while the voices are generally good, they, nonetheless, benefit by the generous use of handheld mikes. Intermission comes, however, and all is soon forgiven. In a winning display of ecclesiastical chic, the cast invites the audience up on stage for a chance at conversation and a little bit of wine...
...Once the focus of hot political controversy, the Cambridge Project has disappeared from public view in the past two years. Most people, if they remember it at all, have no idea that the Project continues, supported by a million and a half Defense Department dollars a year...
...girl's ordeal was only the latest in a series of similar horrors, and it sent waves of fear through the area. It was not long before those fears found a focus: brawny, broad-shouldered Alphonse Le Gastelois, a sometime woodworker and full-time eccentric who lived alone in a tumble-down St. Martin cottage. Le Gastelois had no friends. Most nights, he could be spotted in his baggy clothes, loping along St. Martin's roads and footpaths. What was he up to? "I love nature," he would say. "I listen to the sounds of the dark and the silence...
...classes," By lumping together these types of protest, the professors seek to eliminate acceptable forms of opposition to Herrnstein's thought. Herrnstein wrote an article with clear political implications. He and his supporters must expect opposition. Leafleting and picketing are justifiable tactics for his adversaries, but the tactics should focus on the ideas and not the man. The statement's claim of "distress to (Herrnstein's) family and friends" cannot be substantiated. A vague statement, it could preclude any criticism of Herrnstein's article...
Members of the Non-Violent Direct Action Group (NDAG) leafletted in front of the Aerospace Research Corporation headquarters in Brighton yesterday. As part of its "winter campaign," the group is attempting to focus attention on the role of Boston-area companies in developing what it calls the "automated battlefield" in Southeast Asia...