Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these criticisms are trivial when one considers the book's basic fallacy, summarized in the over-discussed title essay. Miss Sontag argues that the concern of the critic is not to discover the "meaning" of a work, but to talk around it. She never gets around to defining "meaning", but one gathers that she equates it with paraphrasable content...
...Lockwood Concern, O'Hara...
Nonetheless, President Johnson's concern for the economy was evident in his repeated references to it last week. Sounding the theme that the U.S. could have its boom and beat inflation too, he warned: "We must be alert to assure that the pace of our advance does not become too rapid, endangering the healthy stability and sound balance of our expansion. Yet to conclude that we must proceed cautiously does not mean that we should slam on the brakes or throw the economy into reverse...
...Curbing interstate traffic in firearms. Though control of gun ownership is essentially a state concern, it cannot be effective until the Federal Government regulates mail-order sales of firearms...
...Johnson's concern needed any documentation, the FBI reported last week that in 1965 the number of murders in the U.S. rose by 6% over the year before, forcible rape by 7%, robbery by 5% and aggravated assault by 3%. Crime of all types increased by 8% in U.S. suburbs. Perhaps the most revealing figure came from William F. Owens, an American Bankers Association insurance expert, who estimated that 850 bank holdups were staged last year v. 609 in 1932, the heisty heyday of the John Dillinger breed of gunman. Most bank jobs today, said Owens, are pulled...