Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important, the protest served to spotlight at least two student attitudes which Mrs. Bunting has heretofore ignored. First, a good many Cliffies have reservations about Mrs. Bunting's plans to make Radcliffe a residential college modeled on the Harvard House plan. With only minimal consultation with undergraduates. Mrs. Bunting has committed herself to a mammoth $7.5 million fund-raising drive to complement a gift from the Ford Foundation for undergraduate dormitory housing. Her plans fail to deal with the vital question of whether girls should be forced to live in the clearly restrictive, prep-school atmosphere of a dormitory...
...that the President feels that protests like Saturday's foreshadow the rise of a strong anti-Johnson political force. To distort the movement's character is no way of dealing with it. Instead, this tactic only serves to spotlight more garishly than ever the intellectual and diplomatic bankruptcy of America's present policy in Vietnam...
...well as in the Puritan and Victorian hymns, minstrel tunes, and "sentimental drawing-room ballads" of late nineteenth-century America. Yet Ives was a composer far ahead of his time, employing radical devices such as polytonality, metrical modulation and tone clusters long before they appeared in the European musical spotlight...
...rotating bar for twelve years. He has an uncanny memory for the favorite tunes of conventioneers who return only once every two or three years, bones up on a little red notebook in which he keeps the names of patrons, their physical characteristics and their songs. With a spotlight trained on his hands, he sometimes plays Mozart and Chopin, remembered from his days at the New England Conservatory. Like all cocktail pianists, he is philosophical about lack of attention. "When they don't listen," he says, "I listen myself...
...last fall, longtime Giant fans could be found across town at Shea Stadium, watching the New York Jets and their $485,000 quarterback, Joe Namath-whose talent for picking apart pass defenses made him a celebrity on the Manhattan nightclub circuit as well as on the field. Stealing the spotlight from Namath is a tall order for a Methodist minister's son who is married, a father, neither drinks nor smokes and makes speeches for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. But Tarkenton may be just...