Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magistrate's hearing for Thorpe and for three others, also charged with conspiracy to murder: David Holmes, 48, a Manchester financial consultant and former deputy treasurer of the Liberals, and George Deakin, 35, and John Le Mesurier, 46, both friends of Holmes'. But the real focus of attention was Thorpe, who had spurred his moribund party into a powerbroker's position in the House of Commons after Britain's 1974 general elections-and then resigned as leader two years later, after Scott made a courtroom claim of his sexual liaison. Thorpe repeatedly denied the accusation...
There is an irony here, though, that provides the key to Moynihan's view of world politics. Moynihan continues to use the language of "containment," while even condemning its narrow militarist focus. It is the vocabulary of the Cold War warmed up again: totalitarianism is "advancing," the liberal elites are shrinking from "retaliation," the West has begun to sink into "irreversible patterns of appeasement." This is not to detract from the importance of Moynihan's initial premise: ideology has come to assume a higher profile in international relations, and the Soviets and the Chinese have certainly been better at addressing...
...focus of the library will probably change as the history of women is incorporated into general history, King remarks. Social history will become more important to the Schlesinger. "We're not all that different from other social history libraries," she observes. "They've just been neglecting the women's part in social history" and the Schlesinger tries to compensate...
...offering alternative values and lifestyles not easily controlled by the usual middleclass institutions and therefore dangerously unpredictable. In rejecting the acquisitive values of the mainstream the cults reject America. The political left and remnants of the '60s movements also attack the cults with a passion; after all, the cults focus attention on spiritual matters, self-realization, mystical attainment, and divert attention from the ever-delayed but inevitable revolution, or at least from reform and restructure of the economy and political life. The established religions also turn away, secure in the knowledge that they have the true message and all others...
...expected that the hype should focus on the strangest, most saleable aspects of a group like Devo. Unfortunately, in this case the result exaggerates Devo's worst side--the monotony and formulization that creeps into some of their songs that are less inspired than "Jocko Homo...