Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spare, subtle language of Webern's music must have seemed extraordinarily novel and refreshing to twelve-tone composers, while his concern for highly schematized structure seemed to be the necessary concomitant to an idiom so unlike Western music. The post-Webern school, as its name implies, has carried these methods a good deal further. There was ample evidence of the wide spectrum of this music at a concert held in Paine Hall on Mar. 5, devoted largely to the post-Webern representation at Harvard, which raised some hard questions about the aims and future of advanced music...
What is lacking so conspicuously is a prevalence of warmth, or any real concern for kindness. Warmth seemingly goes against every Harvard grain: it is not characteristic of the East; it appears incompatible with scepticism; and it is ultimately blocked by self-consciousness. It is essentially an enthusiastic attitude. Kindness finds even stronger opposition at Harvard: even taken in its deepest sense, not as a wish to avoid causing pain, but as a constant consideration and valuation of feelings, it contradicts the most sacred critical canons. It is thought to be a sign of the rankest tender-mindedness and most...
...order and clarify Protestant ideas, even for those who do not accept Tillich's interpretation; 2) a kind of shock treatment for the complacent, who are apt to be driven, by Tillich's unorthodoxies, to re-examine the basis of their own faith; 3) a passionate, contagious concern for the human condition and for faith as an essential element of that condition...
...effect, driving man to the painful extremity of accepting the ultimate threat confronting his existence, and yet to affirm life in the face of this very threat. "The one thing needed-this is the first and in some sense the last answer I can give-is to be concerned ultimately, unconditionally, infinitely . . . If, in the power and passion of such an ultimate concern, we look at our finite concerns, everything seems the same and yet everything is changed . . . The anxiety is gone! It still exists and tries to return. But its power is broken...
...concern about inflation, the Fed worries about the U.S. Treasury's money-raising problems. The Treasury has been forced to hike interest rates on-its short-term Treasury bills to above 2½%, thus tempting commercial banks to "play the spread" by borrowing money from the Federal Reserve at 2½% and putting it into Government securities that yield more. The Fed's discount-rate increase will stop this practice, was timed to take place between Treasury financings so as not to upset the market...