Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summer of '42 is a piece of machine-tooled sentiment about an adolescent's first stirrings of love and initiation into tentative adulthood. There is a standard form for films like this, and Summer of '42 seems to have been the model. It has gauzy, soft-focus photography and saccharin rhapsodies on the sound track. The writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget...
...however, are historical enough for us to believe that they are real and not a warp of the present vortex, but they are also close enough in time for us to feel some comfort with them. The energies they generated are still around, still possible resolution to fine focus. The war for independence (Revolutionary) began a certain growth of sensibilities as, our backs turned safely to England, we merely walked a few short steps to the assumption that we had set our back-yard fences much too close to the east coast and, being a symmetrically oriented people, made plans...
Dense Reality. Because of the casting of the two principal roles, James and Mary Tyrone, the play has a different focus than the original 1956 production. It might be argued that the change somewhat distorts O'Neill's intent. James (Robert Ryan) has toured the country for decades in a melodramatic potboiler, just as O'Neill's father did in The Count of Monte Cristo. Edwin Booth had once praised James' Othello, and he is haunted by the self-betrayal of his gifts. Ryan never quite suggests the commanding matinee-idol presence that Fredric March...
...each human personality, but its perfection: Ananda Marga is unabashedly striving to create a one-world society of Universal Men, human beings' each unbound by the limitations of time, space, and person, and yet each uniquely personal. In such a context the Guru, Shrii Sarkar, appears in sharper focus as a model man than as a human...
...focus of the protest has passed from passive demonstrations to militant and aggressive, though nonviolent, civil disobedience under the leadership of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. PCPJ is the best organized and most intelligent antiwar group ever to sponsor a Washington demonstration. Their tactics are direct confrontation. their strategy is long-term commitment, and their shock troops are the Vietnam Veterans Against...