Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much-heralded army of 100,000 young volunteers prepares to start its massive registration drive in mid-August, a quiet Republican task force of 125,000 youngsters is already hard at work in 35 states and will move into the 15 others by Aug. 1. The current focus of the G.O.P. Youth Division, in operation since early January, is to register working youths who are not in college, a group slightly more than two-thirds as large as the collegians, most of whom the Republicans concede to McGovern...
...more. Most Japanese scholars trace the decline of Japanese pornography to the prewar era. It was then that the imperial government, in an attempt to focus the nation's energies on making war, not love, enacted Japan's first anti-obscenity laws. Later on, American G.I.s marched in with their pinups and introduced such shocking habits as handholding in public. Before long, the battle lines were drawn: a bureaucracy committed to the defense of a dated public prudery v. a society whose celebration of private sensuality has nonetheless produced, among other things, Japan's ubiquitous "sex drugstores...
Mary McCarthy brings a special sensibility to her journalism about the war in Viet Nam. Behind the smart bitchiness of The Group there is a complicated spirit in anguish over what she now calls "this miserable country." As an expatriate, she sees the U.S. in sharp focus, remarking on incongruities that a resident takes for granted. Thus she recognized-and skillfully skewered -American bungling in Viet Nam (1967), though her later Hanoi (1968), likewise based on firsthand reporting, suffered from a Lincoln Steffens I-have-seen-the-future-and-it-works naiveté. In Medina, her third short book...
BEYOND the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, attention at the Democratic Convention will focus on some key figures, people who are either instrumental in running the convention or who could emerge as influential brokers on the floor. Among them...
...subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest way to any child at any stage of development." On the contrary, the Moores say, many children's powers of vision and hearing are still forming until the age of eight. Thus they find it difficult to focus on objects at close range, like a book, and to distinguish between similar letters, like m and n. The Moores also cite studies indicating that the nerve fibers connecting the various parts of the brain are not fully developed before age seven or eight. Hence younger children are ill equipped to learn...