Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard academic urging a crackdown on small-time criminals evokes accusations of social injustice, a charge that greatly irritates the usually unflappable Wilson. He correctly points out that the prime victims of street crime are the urban poor and claims that his real concern is with "the disadvantaged society." Throughout his writing, Wilson makes a special effort to show how his theories meet the needs of ghetto blacks and urban poor...
Broad Tent. With fewer than half of the 150 members of the Republican National Committee in his camp, Reagan's ability to force a new chairman on the party is questionable. Some of his advisers are preaching caution in any case. Said one: "My concern is that whatever is done be done in such a way that it doesn't look like a conservative purge. The Republican tent has to be broad." But others are urging Reagan to be more aggressive. Said Lyn Nofziger, Reagan's longtime political aide: "We don't want...
...powers would not in fact be enlarged. Until the N.A.A.C.P. job came along, his chief desire was to return to preaching. Accepting the N.A.A.C.P.'s offer required some soul searching, he concedes, but "it does give me a chance, in the secular sense, to deal with my concern for people. At the FCC, I dealt with institutions." Besides, he adds, "the N.A.A.C.P. needs...
...words, mood and states of being. The words are brilliantly deployed. The mood is autumnal. The states of being are growing old, needing companionship, the slithering instability of illusion and reality, the burden of the artist and the elusive tapes of memory. Yet Pinter's underlying concern seems to hover offstage, a case of the middle-age megrims which, at the age of 46, Pinter may well feel or have felt when he was writing No Man's Land. It is at that point that the first bayoneting intimations of mortality strike home. The middle-aged man also...
...Defense cutbacks. Carter's announced intention to cut $5 billion to $7 billion from the Pentagon budget has caused intense concern among contractors in the West, with its big aerospace and military complexes. West Coast executives are asking: Will Carter kill the B-1 bomber? The B-1 alone would employ 6,000 by next year...