Word: concernedly
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Passages like this redeem Liddell's work as an introduction to Cavafy, mitigating to some degree the overabundant attention to less lively details (such as the poet's finances), which are nonetheless of primary concern to those who are truly preoccupied with the poet. But one cannot really criticize Liddell for thoroughness verging on tedium--after all, thoroughness is his avowed goal. An invaluable last word for aficionados, a complete and scholarly treatment of a much neglected subject, Liddell's biography is not, however, calculated to generate a great upsurge of interest in the poet. English-speaking readers are much...
Next day Carter met with his team for the first time around the big mahogany table in the Cabinet Room. Signifying his concern with conserving energy, the thermostat was at 65°. Quipped Press Secretary Jody Powell: "I'm told it was one of the most wideawake Cabinet meetings ever held...
...responding to some warm overtures from Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, announced plans for quick resumption of the long-stalled talks on U.S.-Soviet arms limitations (see following story). But at the same time, in line with Carter's conviction that U.S. foreign policy ought to show more concern for human rights, Washington seemed willing to strain what might yet be a honeymoon of sorts with Moscow. The Administration issued some harsh public criticism of the internal affairs of East bloc countries...
...land reform. To contain inflation, the government in effect banned strikes and required employers to withhold and deposit in banks money awarded to workers in wage increases. Production quotas on private industry were lifted. (Businesses had not been allowed to produce as much as they could, out of socialistic concern that their owners might get too rich.) The dominant state-owned sector of industry, which deals in such key goods as steel, coal and iron ore, was enabled to cut through the red tape that has strangled its growth...
Grau's excellence of craft disguises the book's principal defect: Evidence of Love is not truly a novel but a linking of short stories. The author's chief concern is to render her characters' responses to intense moments of their lives - one of the working definitions of the short story of the '40s and '50s. Her far-flung locations are not textured settings but flimsy sets where the author vainly at tempts to stage her quiet drama of rootlessness and disaffection...