Word: refocus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...develops brilliantly as the father's most terrible enemy and at the same time his closest, most longed after source of love. She is a woman driven by instinct rather than plan. Miss Clark is outstanding not in her portrayal of an absolute evil, but in her ability to refocus the attention of the audience through her weaknesses on the father as the prime source of his own downfall...
...that point, SDS intervened with a symbolic presence in a last attempt to make the ROTC debate "honest." Amid such subtleties, they attempted to refocus debate on the political aspects of ROTC and its sponsor, the U.S. military. These are the aspects of ROTC which make it of life-and-death importance to millions of people outside of the United States. These are the aspects which SDS sought to raise in its initial protests against ROTC...
...been blueprinting a self-improvement program calculated to restore the paper's waning market. Last week some of the details of the plan were out. By March 1 the paper hopes to enlarge its worldwide staff by 10%-20%, double the five-man Washington bureau and, most important, refocus its emphasis on news significance. "There will be a certain resemblance to what a newsmagazine does," said Editor Canham. "We want more intensive comment rather than someone sucking his thumb and pontificating about something...