Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many painters have gone so far into self-exploration that painting has very little relevancy today. Unless we concern ourselves with more important issues, painters will become anachronisms, and great art will be found only in historical archives, currently known as art museums...
...blacks, their traditional concern has been with poverty and injustice, not revolution. They are anxious about wages, about their children's schooling, about losing their jobs and thus their legal right to remain in the urban townships. Their leaders, for the most part today, are in prison, in detention or in hiding. They have few spokesmen. Despite the current wave of arrests and bannings, tangible evidence of the power of the state, riots and strikes will probably go on. South Africa's best-known writer, Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), has described the black-white confrontation as "a nightmare...
...simply do not believe an energy crisis exists. In a Gallup poll last summer, only 38% of the people were willing to call the energy situation "very serious." A recent New York Times-CBS poll found that fully 57% of Americans just do not share President Carter's concern...
...attrition to a point where officers complain that they cannot adequately patrol their beats. The police administration should seriously consider hiring more officers, despite the added expense this might incur. Personal safety is too vital to be sacrificed, either to student carelessness or to an ill-conceived bureaucratic concern for cost-cutting...
...FAILURE of the Yale university administration to accept non-binding arbitration as a means of settling the seven week old strike by Yale's dining hall and maintenance workers demonstrates the administration's lack of concern for the workers and students affected by the strike, and a lack of faith in its own bargaining position...