Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capable of exerting genuine leverage came far later in his life than is generally assumed-if it came at all. Williams believes that King, at the time of his assassination, was only beginning to structure his efforts into forms that could generate the necessary concrete political power and accurately focus it towards the achievement of the survival and self-determination of black people and poor people. The neo-Populism of the Poor People's March and King's activity in the antiwar movement are cited by Williams as indicative of the new directions in which King was moving. Because these...
...have first been thwarted by the Negroes in her own community, for not being exactly the right kind of person it was willing to go to bat for." However, as Williams quotes King, "Fortunately, Mrs. Parks was ideal for the role assigned her by history." And that was to focus the attention of black people, the middle class in particular, on the irrationality of their condition...
...moving toward the Vietnam protest, King. as Malcolm X had done before him, became international in his focus. "It will not go unobserved," says Williams, "that both Malcolm and King died as they attempted to mount programs involving not only blacks, but the oppressed of every race and kind."' King was now living up to the true standards of a Nobel Peace Prize winner...
...have to develop fields of concentration in which students can focus on a particular area during the second and third years," he said. This may include more interchange with the College curriculum and more emphasis on clinical work during these years, Sacks said...
...young girl (Jennifer O'Neill), a war bride living in a lonely cottage on a promontory where sea, earth and air come together, who becomes the focus of Hermic's discoveries, is presented with the necessary elusiveness of a dream (partly as a result of Mulligan's treatment of Herman Raucher's often underwritten and coy screenplay). But, because of the realistic, often comic development of the rest of the film, her character calls forth audience frustration rather than the desired sense of intrigue. Introduced in two slow motion sequences, she is surrounded by a lyricism that is forced...