Word: locus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being the detached, objective arbiter of Presidential decision-making, he has become a crucial molder and supporter of Nixon's foreign policy. Instead of merely holding the bureaucracy at comfortable arm's length, he has entangled it in a web of useless projects and studies, cleverly shifting an important locus of advisory power from the Cabinet departments to his own office. And as confidential advisor to the President, he never speaks for the record, cannot be made to testify before Congress, and is identified with Presidential policy only on a semipublic level. His activity is even less subject to domestic...
...good: the Harris survey points to a high incidence of civic concern, and the example of Evanston indicates that the combination of civic concern with a manageable governmental unit can work very well indeed. Suburbia may never re-create the New England town meeting, but it could be the locus of a new localism that will succeed in allowing its citizens to reassert some control over their lives and their governments, to create a fresh sense of community and roots across the land...
...link between high historical painting and rococo elegance, able to invest a pen drawing with as much tension and airy scale as a painted ceiling. But generally the 18th century seemed to be Anglo-French territory: Italy's long moment of cultural supremacy had gone, the locus of energy shifted...
...underdog. Now bearing human footprints, the moon has assumed a new kinship with mankind. And once again, that tiny body whose feeble reflective light is daily obscured by the overpowering brilliance of sun had succeeded in blotting out, however temporarily, the dominant light source in man's special locus within the universe...
...that most inefficiencies in food policies derive from Harvard's contracting and accounting policies, with some contributions, as always, from the ever-inefficient B and G. As in most of my overtures for improvements in student living conditions. I feel like I'm arguing with an accounting system. The locus of responsibility for this is so obscure that students have no access to it whatsoever...