Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These stipend adjustments can be covered by surplus funds only for another year or two, Bender says. "What may happen in future years, however, particularly if there are further increases in College charges as enrollment drops ...gives cause for grave concern..." The number of scholarships must not go down, the report says, if "the College is to have a democratic national student body." But when surpluses evaporate, the number of scholarships or the size of grants will have to drop, Bender goes on, unless a new solution is found
Chairman Sloan's stand-pattish conclusion: "Our primary concern must continue to be with those who really know opera and support it, those who believe in its basic pattern, those who love opera for what it is, not what someone else thinks it should be." There was no immediate response from Met Critic No. 1 Billy Rose. George Sloan's shafts had been flung just 30 hours after Billy (see PEOPLE) had flown off on a trip around the world...
Speaking before the College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Buck stressed his concern for future freedom "to experiment and to excel," while Harris dismembered the economics purportedly supporting Commission assurances that private schools will successfully withstand vast Federal financing of public institutions...
What is often comic, but always instructive about this book is Author Davenport's way of reversing the normal scale of values. No matter how largely they may figure, art, literature, history, the soul of man itself here becomes secondary to the prime concern-surface appearances. When Author Davenport looks at a medieval painting of the martyrdom of Saint Alban, she merely observes, with an artist's pure detachment, that the saint's collar "shows the new interest ... in the vertical line and in the center-front." In another such painting, Job's boils are ruthlessly...
...Concern over the nation's security threatens to put "our basic freedom, freedom to thought, into a strait jacket," Professor Kirtley F. Mather told a Ford Hall Forum audience last night at Jordan Hall. Mather's talk was entitled "The Threat to Freedom in the United States...