Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some professors say that the African course offerings detract from the focus of the department. Huggins agrees, "It is hard enough to deal with Afro-American subject matter than to have to address the quite dramatically different culture and lifestyle of Africa." Many professors and students agree that Harvard should offer more courses that deal strictly with Africa, to create an interdisciplinary concentration...
...plot did not result in any other provable crime. People who play widely varying roles in a conspiracy can be judged equally guilty, and only one defendant need be shown to have committed "any act to effect the object of the conspiracy." Thus the prosecutor does not have to focus on the narrow specifics of allegedly illegal acts; he can lay a long, complex story before the jury in its entirety. He can use the testimony of minor conspirators to convict more important figures; Channell and Miller have already named Oliver North as their co-conspirator. And in conspiracy cases...
...Driving Miss Daisy, an intimate tale of a Southern Jewish woman (Dana Ivey) and her black chauffeur (Morgan Freeman), told in vignettes ranging from just after World War II to the era of the civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal but conformist | businessman son (Ray Gill) refuses to attend -- and cannot quite bring herself to invite the driver to accompany her until...
Hesburgh, who attended Notre Dame's Holy Cross seminary and later taught theology at the university, has gone at his prodigious works with unwavering energy and focus -- plus a regal self-assurance. A globe-trotter who covers as many as 150,000 miles a year proselytizing for Notre Dame, he has said Mass at the South Pole and at the Faculty House of the University of Moscow. (The difference between God and Hesburgh, goes an old campus joke, is that God is everywhere and Hesburgh everywhere but Notre Dame.) With this spiritual nourishment fed into a healthy ego, he retains...
Lyndon Johnson was also a focus of sexual stories during his pre-White House years when he was Senate majority leader. There were many glimpses of him motoring to the Georgetown home of an attractive young woman, of his wanderings through his Texas ranch house to the bedrooms of guests. But, as usual, there were no eyewitnesses in the bedrooms...