Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independence and scholarship merely prevented the teaching of moral philosophy, but did not interfere with the learning of its aims, and if Harvard students did show a marked concern for ethical conduct, character, and duty, there would be no reason to discuss this subject. But these concerns do not in fact manifest themselves consistently either abstractly or in practice; and while they are often excluded because of a real conflict of desired values, their absence can also be ascribed to indolence and to a communal atmosphere which agrees to ignore them...
...Concern for Prestige...
...Winslow Homer, also by Goodrich, reverently explores the austere, hermit master, who wrote to a would-be biographer: "I think that it would probably kill me to have [a biography] appear, and as the most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public, I must decline to give you any particulars in regard...
Nevertheless, a review of this past year's effort by the gentlemen in Washington should cause great concern to the politicians, if only because of the difficulty in understanding what lesson to draw from the confused, and perhaps essentially meaningless, happenings...