Word: concerning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...born Thomas Stearns Eliot of being a reactionary, a Christian, an American, a spoilsport and ployer of anti-lifemanship, a sociologically irresponsible escapist. In a typical passage, Purcell complains that "The very great improvement in the living conditions of the working classes" after World War I was "of no concern" to Eliot-which is about as irrelevant as panning Shakespeare for being a jingo...
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's posture of concern [Jan. 20] for our security is touching. For years he's been head of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee; what the hell has he been doing all that time...
...more true than in sprawling Chicago, whose press is frequently apathetic to corruption. Says Press Baronet Sagan: "A neighborhood paper has the local, personal function, the bread-and-butter job, of telling who married whom-and you'd be surprised how many people care. The second function is concern for civic affairs. A city is a terribly complicated animal. It's even harder for people to know what's going on in their own city than to find out what Khrushchev is doing. This is a function that dailies are no longer filling...
...liberal arts college, it is particularly distressing to find a field such as music shutting out, to a greater and greater extent, the general student in the interests of the concentrators. If a choice must be made, a broad education for all students should be of more concern than the more vocational problems of the concentrators. Ideally, the department should be able to supply these general courses without doing it at the expense of the concentrators. Presumably, many of them would welcome the addition of courses in the history and literature area, in which they only have three...
Summing up, the President says: "The times, then, seem to me to call not for a violent new national effort in a single direction (which in any event we are ill-prepared to take) but rather for a more consistent, steady, concern for the whole of education...