Word: refocused
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refocus Detroit's expansion, a new "twin" city should be created near Port Huron, 50 miles northeast of Detroit...
...more pressing issues. "There are 50 bills in the legislature on environmental problems," said one black speaker, "but none on the rats in Detroit, Flint and Jackson." Viet Nam activists are beginning to suspect that the war is also being forgotten because of increasing emphasis on the environment. To refocus discontent on Viet Nam and racial problems, campus radicals are planning a counter teach-in on April 22, when at least 700 colleges and 2,000 high schools plan to hold peaceful environmental protests. Ironically the change seems to be the result of President Nixon's own interest...
Even today the discovery of a new work can refocus the picture of medieval art constructed by scholars. Often the layman innocently accepts as truth myths that the historian has conjured from a scattered pile of facts. Fragments appear in odd places, and he can only tentatively identify them by grasping at close comparisons. But questions fly up when the dusky medieval art books are opened...