Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of inflation, despite tight credit and high taxes, indicates the need for a general examination of America's economic health. President Eisenhower has expressed concern about soaring prices, which have brought complaints from pension-holders and others on fixed incomes. Many economists think that inflation has reached the acute stage, beyond which lie the hardships of a depression or the inequities accompanying devalued currency. Although there are some optimistic voices, anticipation of a general pocketbook squeeze calls for inquiry...
...academicians' current concern with folk songs and jazz is understandable. Feeling removed from the vitality of life, they turn to these forms of music to reassure themselves that they still retain the youthful vigor they associate with "the people." A far more representative and exciting form of proletariat culture, however, is that of popular music...
...smokey room on the second floor of Rindge Technical High School, a battle is being waged that has consumed the interest of the City of Cambridge, and, if a Harvard Dean has his way, will eventually concern the state legislature...
There is very little that any art form, most of all the cinema, can say significantly that is not bound to offend somebody. But the offense is less dangerous than the suffocation of the art. Modern drama and literature have shown a deep concern for the darker side of life; to cut the cinema off from this mainstream of intense concern and bewilderment in modern art is to allow it to become more and more a picture of a mythical and unreal world...
...distinguished by the modification of sensibility, then the importance of art is determined by the extent of the modification. (Whether the extreme modification of a few sensibilities, is more importance than a slight modification of many supposedly inferior sensibilities is of no concern here. A debate on the comparative importance of Rimbaud and Anne Lindbergh hangs on the democracy of your taste. (Personally, I am afraid that not even politicians, much less artists, can be both democratic and honest with themselves...