Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria before their marriage this week. The prosperity of Western Europe could be seen at the crowded beaches, in the tumult of new cars crowding the Autobahnen. Those insecure lands of the Middle East, of Africa, of Asia were taking turns that caused concern as well as hope; in some, harsh methods employed new guises. But in this Geneva interval, when a basic worldwide test was how firmly nations stood on their own, how able and anxious they were to resist the reach of Communism, the results were impressive. A partial check list...
...this country, where all men are equal. Such a belief is not only insane, it is childish. I do not wish to defend Kennedy or his faith, but I do think that religion is not a basis for election. Religion should not enter into politics, especially those politics that concern a nation...
...that the old themes are entirely absent-but they must be read between the lines. Hypotenuse in Playwright Greene's triangle is stolid, sluggish Dentist Victor Rhodes (Sir Ralph Richardson), whose single-minded concern for teeth drives his wife Mary (Phyllis Calvert) into a shabby affair with a frustrated bookseller, Clive Root (Paul Scofield). In a scene of Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly...
Ironic Love. Near death himself, old Alihodja reflects that he has been right all along in his contempt for Western progress. For years, he mutters, the Austrians pretended concern for the bridge: "They had cleaned it, embellished it, repaired it down to its foundations, taken the water supply across it, lit it with electricity and then one day blown it all into the skies...
...Eighteen percent of all those answering the questionnaire said they believed in an "infinitely wise, omnipotent, three-person God who created the universe and who maintains an active concern for human affairs." The largest group of respondents -24%-believed in "a God about whom nothing definite can be affirmed." Only 4% flatly denied God's existence...