Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poverty-ridden childhood with a lunatic grandmother, rape by a giggling maniac, seduction by her boss's stepson, addiction to "sex pills," confinement in a home for delinquent girls. Of eleven stories in the April issue of Macfadden Publications' True Story, three involve unwed mothers, two concern alcoholism, two feature divorce, another relates the plight of a girl who is forced by scandalmongers into an unwanted marriage...
Although the greatest part of his published work has been in the field of Roman art, the central concern of his life has been the complexity and meaning of Greek art. This study he feels can only be approached by an extremely mature scholar, and he is only now beginning a book in this field. The opposite of the caricature of the German scholar of minutiae, Professor von Blanckenhagen makes a great effort to expose the general terms and standards which the art of the period expresses--the "image of man" as he calls it--but he insists...
Although the Hungarian uprising attracted far more sympathy and publicity in the United States than did similar events in Poland, the Polish transition has more immediate concern for America than the Hungarian failure. The United States cannot afford to lose any opportunity to weaken the ties between the Kremlin and a satellite, and the present situation in Poland presents just such an opportunity...
...Krishnamurti, all references to the future veil and obstruct the self from realization in what he defines as the present Being). Gossip and newspapers, for instance, originate from concern for others, lead to externalization and inward emptiness. But he fails to see that the self must define itself by that very concern for those others among whom the self is undeniably and inextricably "thrown." Denying our interest in others excludes a vital part of ourselves...
Krishnamurti overlooks the possibilities of possibility, the value of the future, man's concern for and with others, human development within the context of such extensions as politics, crowds, newspapers, and worry ("care"). Always, the greatest things come out of crisis and struggle. Realization and self-consciousness do not arise from comfort, from the present, from tranquility. The man who is frightened by himself, afraid to face his loneliness and his own self, flees to the consoling arms of tranquility and the tangibles of the present. But the seekers of the self--the self-conscious--grasp the future, appropriate their...