Word: concerned
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Tasteless Opulence. Nixon seems to be giving considerable weight to the kind of argument expressed by one Southern lady on the convention floor. She declared: "This is a protest year. We've got to get that protest." She did not mean Negroes or fractious students. The protesters that concern her are people "who are sick and tired of their money going out of their pockets to keep people sitting in front of TV sets...
...credentials as a potential President and an expert on urban affairs?two of Nixon's other stated criteria in making his choice?are less convincing. He has no background at all in foreign affairs and little experience in city problems, which Nixon has said would be a prime concern of his Vice President. Baltimore County, which Agnew governed until 1966, has few of the problems of the big cities. The minuscule Negro population (2.6%) has actually decreased in recent years...
...ruling, Judge William Consodine of the Essex County Superior Court withheld the names of the couple and emphasized that normally, "mixed marriages are of no more concern to courts than interracial marriages." But in the Idaho town where they would live, he noted, "the two children and their mother would be the only Jews. There are but two temples in the state, the nearer one being almost 300 miles away. Of Idaho's population (692,000), only 500, or .07%, are Jews." The father, on the other hand, lives in northern New Jersey, where "temples, Hebrew schools and extrareligious...
...Trinity College has been one of the few centers of free, unfettered thought in Ireland. Its graduates include Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Beckett. Faculty traditionalists fear that the school will lose its élan and its independence in the merger. There is also some Protestant concern about a "Papist takeover." It has been noted that Dublin's Archbishop John C. McQuaid still sends out an annual pastoral letter warning Catholics that attendance at Trinity is a mortal sin. Dispensations, however, are freely given, and since many students simply ignore the ban, a full one-third...
Therefore, if our concern for the starving children is to go beyond mere liberal reflexes, we must have the courage to denounce the the political brigandage of the secessionist elite. If our liberalism is to have a sure ethical footing in the Nigerian crisis, we must not allow our enthusiasm to spill over into a justification of secession...