Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explain later to the House Un-American Activities Committee how Marxism could appeal not only to the bitter young intellectual but to more or less sheltered middle-class persons as well. They were attracted, he said, "by the very vigor of the project." They felt "a great intellectual concern-an almost Christian concern-for the underprivileged, for economic crises, for the problem of war. They say: 'What shall I do?' At that crossroad the evil thing, Communism, lies in wait with a simple answer...
...great grey owl, a much larger and rarer creature in these parts and a bird which would hardly be likely to be lured into the big city even by the prospect of a Harvard-educated prey. We realize that this nomenclatural lapse is not a matter of any great concern, except to us, but in the interest of distinguishing between ornithological prodigy and editorial error, we respectfully submit this correction...
...Boswell's main, lifelong concern was always Dr. Johnson. Among the newly discovered pages of the Life is the record of his first impression of the Doctor: "... A man of most dreadful appearance . . . troubled with sore eyes, the palsy, and the King's evil [scrofula]." By 1772, nine years later, the new papers show, Boswell was writing Garrick that he was "determined" to write Johnson's life. He even interviewed a member of Johnson's household as to the Doctor's "amorous propensities...
...Council resolution expressed concern "with what might grow out of the Dean's ruling, not with what the ruling specifically proposes to cover...
Many of the people who concern themselves with such far-sighted matters feel that the only way out of this impending crisis is by decentralization of the theater on Broadway and de-emphasizing the "star system." This would probably require government subsidy of a revolving chain of professional repertory groups strung across the country. The United States is the only major country that does not today subsidize the arts, and there is currently a movement afoot to have President Truman create a new cabinet post--Secretary of Fine Arts. Surely a capitalistic democracy has a need for artists...