Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forms is a concern with important social questions which insures that he will always write about something worth reading about; since Rome burns every day, a cry of "Fire!" has a certain sort of interest that simple fiddling can never attain. And it means that even the least of his plays has a vitality, an urgency, that could not exist if the author were not passionately involved with every line. "Passion" is a frequently debased word in our time, but Bernard Shaw has reminded us of the existence of a moral passion that can be no less strong than...
...study of national character, according to Riesman, has grown out of an interaction of psychoanalysis, anthropology and history. The first two fields have a kinship, he remarked, in their common concern for "underprivileged data," (dreams, games, weaning habits), and search for "the rivulet of motive in the tidal wave of history." But "groups, like scholars, may differ over what is basic in society," and to understand these differences, a study of history is necessary...
...spur to the drive came yesterday with a solicited message from Deans Bundy and Monro, who noted, "what parents have done is their concern--this Drive is yours. Giving is something Harvard men have habitually done well...
...address to the Social Relations Society, Bauer stated that this concern has its roots in "the perpetual hope and horror that man will invent means of controlling and manipulating man." Even in the thirties psychologists and psychiatrists were taking the place of witches and devils in demonology...
Doty attacked the "popular notion" that the Russian challenge exists only in science and material progress. "While watching our comparative production curves," he noted, "we tend to overlook certain problems in education, for instance." A million Russians speak English, he said, and a "dynamic concern for learning English penetrates much of the society...