Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS LAST point illustrates the main problem in the book, that of finding Lasch's own position and focus among the many opinions and levels of argument he presents. He uses social history occasionally to illustrate a point, yet he sometimes seems to write from an entirely theoretical perspective. He writes mostly about studies of the family rather than about the family itself: he opens with a Marxist discussion of the place of the family in capitalist society, and in his conclusion he uses psychoanalytic theory to analyze the current problems in families. The conclusion seems fitting in its application...
Charles Cristello, staff member of The Mobilization for Survival, another sponsor of the conference, said yesterday the meeting "will help focus attention on the upcoming United Nations special session on disarmament...
...intercut with this material is rather perfunctorily and inelegantly shot. One suspects that Soviet authorities, not wanting the world audience to get the impression that the kids are a sweated artistic proletariat, forced the documentarians to avoid any overt suggestion that there might be more pain, narrowness of intellectual focus and disappointment in the children's lives than is shown in this overly sweet film. It is assuredly a harmless way to pass a rainy weekend afternoon with one's own kids, though the commercially made and fictional The Turning Point, for all its melo drama, actually offers...
...such issue: Israeli settlements in the Sinai, which was the focus of discussion between Israel's Ezer Weizman and Egypt's General Mohammed Abdel Gha-ny Gamassy who met in the Tahra Palace on the outskirts of Cairo. Privately, both sides insisted that the Sinai settlements were not a fundamental problem. In fact, one leading Egyptian official told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn: "We suspect the Israelis are making so much of the Sinai settlements in order to establish the principle of settlements in the occupied territories-and later to apply that principle to the West Bank...
Jewett likes to speak well of this program. When asked where the main thrust of Harvard's minority recruitment effort lies, he responds that, "While the main impetus for recruitment has got to come from staff, students--certainly in the areas they focus on--would probably be at least equal in terms of what they produce...