Word: refocus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such exchanges, which are common now, enable Vellucci to refocus city council battles from within the independent group to the larger arena of independents and liberals. Yet Danehy persists in fighting Sullivan and Russell and he hampers Vellucci's efforts to mobilize an independent majority on the council...
This is Sagan's space litany, presented in The Cosmic Connection. Readers who would like more detail could do worse than begin with the 39 mini-essays in the book. Sagan's purpose is nothing less than to refocus man's perspective about his place in the chain of being. Astronauts' bootprints left on the moon stir his imagination like "contemporary ziggurats," places "where the gods came down to earth and the population as a whole transcended everyday life." For him, the U.S. space program is justified simply because it irreversibly thrust us into interplanetary travel...
Gwynne B. Evans, director of Expository Writing, said last week that in addition to exemption the Standing Committee on Expository writing is considering a requirement that expos instructors teach "a common core of material" and "refocus on some of the fundamental aspects of writing...
Evans said the refocus on writing is necessary to make expos "a writing course, not a discussion group and not a rap session." The central core of curriculum would give freshmen in different sections common ground for discussion, he said...
...groups to carry on their activities much to the dismay of certain administrators, can we surmise that the University wishes to see PBH exorcised? For many of us students, PBH activities have been a radicalizing experience; the disparity between textbook facts and reality has forced many of us to refocus our thinking. It is only natural that the University hush those voices from within which question its present notions about relevant education...