Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present organization--effectively a potential big-business concern hiding behind illegitimate academic immunities--can only arouse the anger of Cambridge merchants, detract from the freedom of undergraduate enterprise, and perhaps endanger the tax status of the University...
...achievement is due, much of the time, to a basic inability to cope with the art's more fundamental and less romantic aspects, rather than to lack of capacity or imagination. The Adams House show, however, is encouraging in this respect. It reveals, more often than not, a concern with basic elements without which nothing is likely to progress...
Flight from Chicago. Concern for the art came second, but it was more widespread. In Chicago, Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich, who rounded up the Seurat show, including Chicago's most valuable painting, Seurat's La Grande Jatte, appraised at more than $1,000,000, got news of the fire by telephone 50 minutes after it started. Another 50 minutes later Rich was on a plane to New York, and four hours later he was standing before La Grande Jatte in the adjacent Whitney Museum. With an audible sigh of relief, he announced...
...Immigration Commission attempts to manipulate Heikkila like a puppet have two unattractive aspects. It appears that the judiciary is the only branch of government left with a real concern for individual rights and for due process. And if Swing's spleen and Walter's wrist-slapping are any index of the nation's government, we are in a very bad way indeed...
...submerge the literary culture. It is of course difficult to have a Platonic dialogue at lunch, but the general flow of conversation tends to center about daily affairs, topical anecdotes, and private and public gossip. There are virtually no more meetings to read papers or hold serious discussions. The concern for academic discipline, and especially for moral education, has almost disappeared. The assumption that a group of interesting people will spontaneously produce brilliant conversation when brought together does not often hold true after a morning of classes when most members prefer to relax rather than to emanate or to absorb...