Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hype and hoopla that usually enliven its annual meetings in a vast warehouse at Needham, Mass., Polaroid Corp. last week pulled a few more rabbits from its seemingly bottomless hat of technological tricks. President William McCune Jr. showed off a new SX-70 camera that uses ultrasonic waves to focus its lens instantly and automatically. With unaccustomed modesty, Chairman Edwin Land, the father of instant photography, said: "This is the first development in which the only part I played was in expressing admiration for those who did the work...
Power towers or solar furnaces, which use huge expensive banks of computer-controlled mirrors to track the sun and focus its rays on large electricity-producing steam boilers...
...Clifford, director of the Los Angeles Ballet company, knew the young Gelsey and was not entirely charmed. "Gelsey was born mad at the world," he says. "She was born ready to kill." Former Dancer Meg Gordon, one of Gelsey's few close friends, remembers the same thing in softer focus: "Even when we were little, her mother used to joke about it, saying, 'You must have come out of your mother's womb marching...
Organizers should limit this approach to alternative publications where the readership is more receptive. A national campaign should focus on the viability of solar power within the context of the trash compacter mentality. If solar energy really changes society away from its energy-eating technological obsession, then there is no need to force such ideas upon the general public. Nevertheless, one aspect of solar energy not linked to its technical or economic feasibility should be stressed--its potential to create jobs...
...these walkers, Joachim Lally, a priest at the Paulist Center, said he feels less tired in years when he walks as a clown because "the focus is outside myself...