Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility that Ray may have had outside help in getting out of Brushy Mountain certainly did not mean that he had had help in killing King. Even so, the escape and the questionable circumstances surrounding it will focus more attention on the feeble efforts of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which has been probing?with a notable lack of style, skill and success?the killings of King and John F. Kennedy. Staff investigators have interviewed Ray six times, and Chairman Louis Stokes of Ohio intended to call him to testify in public. Though Stokes will not reveal what...
...naive, well-brought-up Eastern girl who had a passion for each other," says Brooke Hayward, 39, emphasizing the past tense of the verb. The story she describes will be told in her next book, a sequel to Haywire, the best-selling memoir of her childhood. This time the focus will be on Brooke's stormy, eight-year marriage to Actor-Director Dennis Hopper, which ended in 1969. As for Hopper's creative activities of late, he was sitting for a portrait by a longtime friend, Artist Andy Warhol, and working on a screenplay of a William Burroughs...
...Higginson Professor of History after 41 years on the Faculty, led the way out of that darkness, making modern China part of the American intellectual world. With a single-minded devotion that America's China missionaries would have envied, Fairbank made China, as seen from the inside out, the focus of Harvard's East Asian Research Center, which he directed for 18 years, and the East Asian Regional Studies Program, which he set up here. Fairbank educated a whole generation of converts whom, in academics, government, journalism and business, he has inspired to continue to spread the word about China...
When serious debate about the University's housing crisis first began years ago, the focus of that debate, as viewed by students and administrators alike, was on the Quad. Students were thus unpleasantly surprised when Rosovsky's final solution to the housing problem severely shortchanged the Quad and its residents and instead concerned itself largely with the peripheral problem of Canaday Hall and the question of four-class housing at the Quad. Rosovsky's plan took almost no notice of long-term measures to equalize the quality of all University housing. Rosovsky and Fox dismissed one such proposal, that...
...John Adams '66, lecturer on Music and director of several University choral societies, became the focus of a controversy in the Music Department over whether or not he should be recommended for the tenured slot of Senior Lecturer...