Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American foreign policy in Asia will come under the spotlight at 8 p.m. tonight in Rindge Technical High School auditorium at the second Law School Forum of the term...
...Harlow Shapley among these at "Harvard . . . noted in the east for its stable of professors who frequently come out from behind their books to toe the communist party line, perhaps absent mindedly." Lyons produces evidence such as the anti-communist articles Professor Schlesinger has written for Henry Luce to spotlight the absurdity of the Tribune's assertions. In another article headlined "Red Teaching at Harvard is Insidious" the Tribune attacked Granville Hicks '23 and Felix Frankfurter '06, neither of whom as Lyons points out, have been at Harvard for ten years...
Indeed, the one terrible enemy of promise that Connolly ignores is the third degree to which the "artist" is subjected today by lovers of the arts such as Connolly himself. A glaring spotlight, directed by dogmatic esthetes, assures the artist of his isolation and triumphantly detects his childhood scars and disfiguring pockmarks. Esthetic policemen suspiciously sniff his every breath and lay down chalk lines which they order him to follow; he is never released, only paroled. A similar attitude toward a baker would alone be enough to ruin any promise of good bread...
...were discreetly silent. In Manhattan, the trade sheet, Variety, printed a flattering review of the show: " [Mrs. Roosevelt] ranks with the standout commentators on the air ... She displays more courage and is more positive than most of the others put together. The surprising question is why ABC chose to spotlight this commentary [Mon., Wed., Fri., 10:45 a.m.] in a strictly hausfrau-slanted morning segment, rather than at night...
...swapped cabled pleasantries with her friend Winston Churchill. An admirer, Lord Beaverbrook, once gave her a party attended by such eager guests as the Aga Khan and Rudolph Valentino. Jock Whitney, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Kent, Ronald Colman-they have all flitted through the spotlight that trails Tallulah wherever she goes. In London, Lawrence of Arabia used to run out to get her fresh cigarettes when her supply...