Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acoustics are very good, and that is a triumph as well as a vindication for Acoustician Christopher Jaffe, 50. The problem with a circular design is that sound diffuses quickly, bounces around, losing clarity and focus. Jaffe, with the Boettcher architects, Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates, has managed to create a lush, integral sound by using such devices as 106 acrylic "reflector" discs suspended from the ceiling and a huge vault below the stage. There are some minor, doubtless correctable difficulties. The bass is not quite rich enough. When Van Cliburn sat down on opening night to slam his way through...
...negotiating the Aswan agreement I had only one thing to focus on. I didn't want more than to maintain the real magnitude of my victory on the ground. I didn't bother about the Israeli Deversoir pocket because I knew that they were my prisoners on the West Bank [of the Canal] and that their presence there meant their death. On the basis of defining and maintaining the real magnitude of my territorial victory, agreement was reached. Yet I was still in great mental anguish, because all the powers wanted to negate my victory. The United States...
...three-phase project, under the direction of Donald Robinson, a Smith College political scientist, will focus initially on research into the Constitution and its evolution. Among possible topics...
...name, it raises the question of whether a Constitution written by men with one set of values can still operate in the 20th century." Burns especially hopes that Project 87 will study the Constitution not from the traditional standpoint of what America can teach other countries but with a focus on what the U.S. can learn from them...
Psychokinesis is the ability to focus and project mental influence on physical objects. Those who have it can, in theory anyway, move mountains or, if we are to believe The Fury, afflict people who cross them with ailments ranging from nosebleeds to cerebral hemorrhages, and worse. To most of us, psychokinesis exists in that exotic realm where pseudo-scientific speculation meets metaphysics, but for Brian De Palma it is obviously an obsession. It was the subject of 1976's highly successful Carrie, and he has returned to it again in The Fury...