Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Paris last week came evidence of other Socialist concern with the evidences of death. The Associated Press reported that Socialist Dr. Jean Huet had told the General Council of the Seine Department that as many as 8,000 persons might be buried alive by mistake every year. "He recommended on behalf of the Socialist Party," said the A.P., "that more modern methods of determining death be required...
...this was no business of Goldsborough's. His only concern was in forestalling a "process which will disintegrate society,"-i.e., a railway strike...
...Archbishop Panteleimon of Greece and Metropolitan Germanos, Greek Orthodox exarch for Western Europe. Largest national block is the 78 bishops from the U.S. led by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. Many of the Americans brought wives & children along (their billeting, in universities and private homes, has been the special concern of Mrs. William Temple, widow of the late Archbishop of Canterbury). While the bishops deliberate in Lambeth Palace, their wives will have a conclave at High Leigh, a large country house near London...
Tempered Anarchy. Lady Pamela's concern for her father's future was occasioned by a historic event. Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Governor General of India, was leaving his post. His withdrawal was one more illustration of the general departure of the European master from Asia. Not only in India, but in every country in Asia, men were trying to fill the vacuum of power created by that departure. Communists believed that they, above all others, would succeed...
Henry V was all simple, engaging action, and Olivier gave it a clarion confidence and sweetness. Hamlet is action in near-paralysis, a play of subtle and ambiguous thought and of even subtler emotions. Olivier's main concern has been to keep these subtleties in focus, to eliminate everything that might possibly distract from the power and meaning of the language. He has stripped the play and his production to the essentials. In the process, he has also stripped away a few of the essentials. But on the whole, this is a sternly beautiful job, densely and delicately worked...