Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high decibel mark of applause was reached when she said: ". . . Now the prevailing opinion seems to consider the defeat of the Japanese as of relative unimportance and that Hitler is our first concern. This is not borne out by actual facts, nor is it to the interests of the United Nations as a whole to allow Japan to continue...
...died, and the handsome young Chiang Kai-shek assumed at least the military tunic of the great revolutionist. Mei-ling Soong met him. At that time she did not actively concern herself with his politics; she heard how he broke with Moscow and she heard whispers of the way his secret societies killed off the Reds. She found herself being courted and liking it, and before long the soldier had followed Mei-ling's formidable mother to Japan to make her agree to a distasteful match (because he had been divorced and was not a Christian...
...continuous novel. The Human Comedy, though it inevitably leaves its grandiloquent title looking like a half-inflated blimp, is a very nice novel indeed. It is, unfortunately, too nice to be as good, as it might have been if Saroyan were capable not only of goodness but of a concern with evil...
Those who express grave concern about the future of the country if the liberal arts were destroyed are entirely right. For there can be no question that the basis of a free society is the education which that society provides. But surely the problem is much broader than the kind of curriculum and the size of the student body of our colleges in the years of war. The problem concerns the general education of young men and women at both the school and college level...
Therefore the primary concern of American education today is not the development of the appreciation of the "good life" in young gentlemen born to the purple--it is the infusion of the liberal and humane tradition into our entire educational structure...