Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, the groups are calling for "a week of local and regional actions during the first week of May, the national focus of which will probably be on May 5 in Washington for clear militant, non-violent acts of civil disobedience," according to Louise Peck, one of the meeting's speakers...
...Gonna Sink. Rivers began the first of 15 consecutive terms in 1941 as the Congressman from South Carolina's First District. His initial congressional assignment was to the Naval Affairs Committee-later to become the Armed Services Committee. The focus of his legislative efforts was to get more for the military-more ships, more planes, more men, more pay, more everything...
Concentrations, instead of serving as tools to focus a student are treated as binding molds that a student must fit in growing. In this case the simplest reform is best. Just leave more loopholes in the requirements for concentration. The new independent studies program, although it asks the right questions, is too complicated and asks them at the wrong time...
...shrewd remake of a Claudette Colbert-Bette Davis tear-jerker, a wet and sloppy romantic interlude which ends in no good for one more tough American broad. Although the death watch exploits Ryan O'Neal as the rebellious scion with a lump in his throat, the real focus of this 1940 star-posturing is Ali McGraw. (Had she worn the midi, it would have been a little too ludicrous...
...criticism came into focus last fall with the publication in Britain of a slim volume called Secular Evangelism. In a plea for soft-sell evangelism, the book argues that "by attempting to bulldoze adolescent minds into orthodoxy of belief we are . . . making it more difficult for earnest seekers after the truth to be real persons." It urges evangelists to seek "people before converts." That did not sit too well with the Salvation Army, for whom soul winning is still the basic objective. Worse yet, the author was Salvation Army Major Fred Brown of Regent Hall, one of the Army...