Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Saudek's "J.R. Agee '32-A Snapshot Album 1928-32" is a kindly, somewhat faded remiscence about his roommate in Thayer 45 and Eliot G-52, James Agee. In Saudek's anecdotes Agee appears vaguely out of focus in his immaturity, as the hilarious dreamer...
...trust-distrust factor as formulated for Korea cannot possibly lie behind the uniformly distributed preference for escalation in Vietnam. Those Korean days were rife with rumors of Communist infiltration into the government; hence, distrust of government could easily focus on the "soft on Communism" issue, and from here it was a logical step to assume that escalation in military activity was the proper measure, simply because an ambivalent government was unwilling to take...
...economic factors in molding working-class "authoritarianism", and then avoiding its wrath, is of great importance to us here. It is necessary to ascertain what makes Communism such a "highly visible" target for hate-filled attacks; some outside stimulus must be present that those low in SES should focus to such a great extent their "confusion and outrage" on Communism...
...Perren J. Mitchell (R-Md.) represented the Black Caucus and announcement of the conference the discussion will focus on domestic priorities "to deal with unresolved problems...
...textbooks used throughout the province's primary and high schools. Quotes from Mao are used liberally in the new texts to instruct students in "proletarian consciousness," according to a college official. The new primers--"still very much in the experimental stage" and therefore forbidden to foreigners--reportedly attempt to focus children's attention back toward the practical needs of their communities...