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Word: focusing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later in the play. Victoria Allan, Diana Gamser and Jim Smith have their roles down perfectly, they don't seem to be acting. The play develops occasional snags with some dead lines from Hoyt and Hall, as well as some zingers that miss. However, Hoyt and Hall center the focus of the play effectively, in spite of their deficiencies...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Finding Our Lost Cookies | 12/3/1977 | See Source »

...fact, Raymond Price and Richard Nixon have grown closer since resignation. Their professional association continues, though its focus has changed somewhat. Whereas hardly three-and-a-half years ago. Price collaborated with Nixon on the president's pronouncements on the highest affairs of state, today Price serves as a literary aide-de-camp for the disgraced statesman, as he pens his memoirs in the seclusion of his San Clemente estate...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Anatomy of a Nixon Loyalist: | 11/29/1977 | See Source »

...advocate of Eurocommunism, Carrillo's speech probably will focus on his belief that a country can achieve socialism through parliamentary institutions while maintaining its independence from the Soviet Union...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Carrillo to Speak | 11/22/1977 | See Source »

...Tolkien. Throughout the book that bears their name, the little creatures are treated soberly as an endangered species "well out of sight, so much so in fact that belief in their existence is waning rapidly." A series of maps, anatomical charts, even recipes are provided, enlivened with sly, soft-focus illustrations by Rien Poortvliet. Gnomes one of the season's very few new books designed to be savored by the entire family. That the male gnome remains potent until about 350 years of age or that the buxom females, unencumbered by gravity, go braless may be of greater interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Cornucopia of Children's Books | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...more washing machines and converting a little-used parking lot into a basketball court: these are the burning issues facing Princeton's Undergraduate Student Government (USG), Richard F. Jacobsen, chairman of the USG, maintains. Jacobsen was elected last October on a platform advocating a change in the USG's focus, from political matters to problems of everyday campus life. Under his leadership, Jacobsen says he hopes the USG will turn its attention toward improving student services and expanding social activities such as concerts...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Governing The Ivies | 11/17/1977 | See Source »

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