Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that during the fifteenth century the Renaissance was well on its way toward what proved to be a comprehensive exodus from the medieval tradition, but nothing is more representative of the scholastic mind than the highly neutralized, cool, sober color of van der Goes and his almost Aristotelian concern for accuracy and precision. It is not difficult to see, simply by examining some of the paintings on exhibit, that the full spirit of the Renaissance did not reach the art of the northern countries until well after it was firmly implanted in southern Europe...
...they can unite in certain specific issues, without impairing the autonomy of any one of them. In view of the paramount importance of keeping our country out of war, the undersigned organizations feel called upon to unite in urging students to join this pilgrimage, in accordance with the particular concern of all three organizations with the maintenance of peace for America. Harvard Student Union American Independence League Harvard Pacifist Association...
...intent on maintaining their advantage, proclaimed (TIME, Jan. 1) that: "Beyond the limits of bourgeois laws and customs, which ordinarily are probably necessary, it can become an exalted task even outside wedlock for German women and girls of good blood to become -not frivolously but imbued with deepest moral concern-mothers of children begotten by soldiers moving to the front without knowing whether they will return or die for the Fatherland...
...which Hollywood does better than it does almost anything else and which Ernst Lubitsch does better than anybody else in Hollywood. Producer-Director Lubitsch, riding high again as a result of his success with Ninotchka, calls this one "a miniature Grand Hotel." But this time the improbable goings-on concern the paternal boss and clerks in the Budapest leather-goods shop of Matuschek (rhymes with hat-to-check) & Co. As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot...
Main confessions in Life's a Circus concern Lady Eleanor's makeshift life. Tame boarding school was relieved somewhat by frequent transfers, midnight escapes, one harum-scarum period in the family of a Belgian baron, when she turned a pack of Irish wolfhounds loose in the crowded ball room of the British Embassy...