Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given the opportunity of realizing with sickening force the depths of hypocrisy and the myopic, manipulative selfishness of men like Mayor Daley (characterized by his abortive attempt to crush the spontaneous beauty and sincerity of the tribute for Robert Kennedy by his manufactured demonstration for himself). The goodness and concern of the people in our country who cannot tolerate such a prostitution of democracy will, I pray, triumph in their attempt to create the newer world of truth and love...
...main concern was with the young people below. "Oh, Dad," pleaded his daughter Mary, "help them!" That evening he went down to his staff headquarters on the 15th floor, where his doctor, William Davidson, had opened a makeshift hospital. McCarthy comforted the bruised and bleeding. A girl who had been injured wept hysterically, and photographers crowded around her. Only then did McCarthy show the emotion reporters had looked for during nine long months of arduous campaigning. "Get out of the way, fellows. You don't have to see anything. Get the hell...
...Painter remarried, two years later, he sought to get Mark back. To his surprise, the grandparents refused. To his shock the Iowa Supreme Court agreed that Mark should not live with his father. Writer-Photographer Painter, said the court, is "either an agnostic or an atheist and has no concern for formal religious training." Life with him "would be unstable, unconventional, arty, bohemian." The boy should remain in the custody of his more "conventional" grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Bannister, both in their sixties...
...Republicans and Democrats-bothered by what seem to be more pressing problems, such as the Viet Nam war, law and order, and civil rights-paid only token attention to the economy. By so doing, they ruled out as a major political issue what has certainly become a matter for concern in almost every U.S. home: the rising cost of living...
...Love Yourself" Less fascinating than these witty, horrific, social criticisms-bleak Utopias all-but often more convincing and moving, are Vonnegut's stories on contemporary themes. They concern, among others, a half-Negro war orphan searching for his father, and a dedicated music teacher trying to soften the heart of a hardened juvenile delinquent. These tales forcibly demonstrate humanity at its best-people trying to cope with the painful present instead of escaping into an anesthetized future...