Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politics do not make drama. If we must be profoundly conscious of the world in which the Lomans live and move, it is as human beings that they interest and concern us. Director Langton seems to have gotten to the root of the personal relationships of the play. One can almost see it schematized in his mind: Linda--Mrs. Loman--at the center as the fulcrum and focus of the action, and perhaps in the larger sense the symbol of Woman as the base of stability in the family, her husband Willy at one end of the lever, and Biff...
...despairing about West German women: "They didn't stop to think, didn't use their heads, or refuse to believe the letters out of confidence in their husbands. No. They opened them, read them and, instantly, they were convinced." Another officer had a different concern. "I hope," he mused thoughtfully, "that soldiers now won't get the idea of nonchalantly palming off real evidence of unfaithfulness as nothing but 'Communist propaganda...
...larger concern of the unhurried professorial report is not the pursuit of scientific or economic security for the U.S. -it is, in the title phrase, "the pursuit of excellence." Through the study runs the conviction that the complex, highly organized U.S. society is demanding too little of its citizens, and that individuals of high capability are stifled. The authors warn that "a continuing tension between the needs of the organization and the integrity of the person . . . may well be one of the most fateful struggles in our future...
Citation: "Lifelong concern with the liberating word . . ." Sidney Lovett, retiring chaplain of Yale University...
...Advertising is a marvelous field for women. They have a warm personal approach and a concern for things that is very valuable. And there is certainly no gender in ideas." The speaker, not surprisingly, was a woman: Margot Sherman, 48, vice president of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., named last week, by the Advertising Federation of America, as Advertising Woman of the Year...