Word: concernedly
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TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC LEFT, by Michael Harrington. The political evangelist who roused the conscience of the U.S. on behalf of the poor (The Other America) here turns to proposals for reshaping American political and economic life through the creation of a new party imbued with social concern. Some of his vision is overly visionary, but there can be no doubting the author's passionate concern...
...most Americans do not fear the end of the world, they are not so easily deflected from the worry that their stable society is seriously threatened-or, to continue the Icarus imagery, that the nation's high-flying hopes might be doomed to a fiery fall. That concern weighed on many minds as the country was getting back to business after the shock of Robert Kennedy's assassination. At Harvard's class day last week, David Shelton, the senior-class chorister, chanted new lyrics to the university's old anthem. Among the lines...
Walter E. Washington, LL.D., mayor of Washington, D.C. As a walking mayor, going to the streets where the action is, he has shown deep concern for the difficult and stubborn problems of the city's people...
Goren is also a brilliant Talmud scholar whose unorthodox approach to Orthodox Judaism has caused some concern in Israel's ultraconservative chief rabbinate, which demands strict observance of ancient Halakah (religious law) and fears him as a "reformer." Last week, however, by a vote of 46 to 41, a council of rabbis and civic representatives elected him chief rabbi of Tel Aviv's Ashkenazi (European) Jews, the second most powerful rabbinicai post in the Jewish nation. The election makes Goren the man most likely to succeed Isser Unterman, 82, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of all Israel...
...Joint Center is not going to be the catalyst between the university and the ghetto, that does not render the Center useless. Ghetto problems are by far the most urgent concern of urbanists, but obviously not the only ones. The urgency of ghetto problems tends to suggest to people an "obvious" institutional role for the urbanstudies Center in the ghetto--but as the Joint Center stands now, it is singularly and paradoxically unsuited to assisting the community it studies