Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare-state university, or multiuniversity . . . made the welfare of its' concern . . . the university has served many masters in many ways...
...market for ideas" while so many of the ideas in vogue on campus are the by-products of government and private grants for research and analysis. It is difficult to say whether this attitude is a bitter reaction to the war or symbolic of a far deeper malaise and concern over the position of a University in modern American society...
...Another concern is money. The Carnegie Commission report on television, which led to the creation of the Public Broadcasting Act, calculated that the corporation would need $56 million annually during its founding years, that by 1980 the whole public-TV system would cost $270 million a year. The Public Broadcasting Act apportions only $9,000,000 in "seed money" for the corporation, and the actual appropriation may be even less...
...Schiff Warburg, member of one of New York's leading banking families. Nowadays, however, even the old skeptics admit that Bob Sarnoff has attended strictly to business. Over the years, his authority and judgment have been reflected more and more in the complex decisions that are of vital concern to the mammoth corporation. Though NBC still stands second to CBS in the TV ratings, RCA completely dominates the color-television field, is increasing its manufacturing capacity so that by the end of this year sales of color sets are expected to be triple those of 1965. After a shaky...
Under White, however, Boston will not become a laboratory for academics. White may be part of the Boston Establishment but he still has a tremendous concern for "the little people" that Louise Day Hicks constantly calls her own. His own personal traditions and the traditions of Boston would prevent him from allowing the city to be used for social experiments that have only a heuristic value. It's also politically unwise to allow academics to have a more or less unconfined role in the city administration. "Professors," says one old Boston observer, "just don't have political savvy...