Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gallup poll reported last week that the war in Viet Nam, racial problems and inflation-in that order-are the principal concern of voters in all parts...
...scornfully calls "white niggers." The middle-class Negro, on the other hand, is troubled by the riots and the chants of "black power," which he knows hurt his cause. The gulf between the two is widened by the fact that the better-off Negro tends to demonstrate too little concern for those he has left behind. Almost alone among all U.S. ethnic groups, Negroes have no significant charity supported by their own people for their own people. The number of Negroes on the public-welfare rolls is increasing, and one-third of the nation's spending for public...
...dinnertime one December night in 1959, and the patriarch of the clan was ventilating one of his favorite complaints. "No one," said Joe Kennedy, a man worth more than $250 million then as now, "appears to have the slightest concern for how much they spend." The chastened familial silence that greeted this remark was at length broken by one of his sons. Said John F. Kennedy: "We've come to the conclusion that the only solution is to have Dad work harder...
...only danger, as the proposal begins its circuitous route to Faculty approval, is that its merits will be obscured by undue concern with the real, but certainly surmountable, problems of cost and administration. If many students should decide to take advantage of a free fifth course, Harvard might have to pay for additional staff and facilities, or turn pass-fail students away from courses already filled with "regular" students...
...combined act of faith and will. They may admire Liu's desire to concentrate on the problems of the oppressed and unliberated peoples outside China. Yet a new Chairman Lin and the ageing Red Guards who grow up under him will for some time have to ignore that international concern while they confront the monstrous, and partially self-imposed, problems within their own borders...