Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rights of individuals testifying before congressional probes were the chief concern of the speakers. All felt that witnesses have rights which must be protected but that the welfare of the country stood above anyone's individual rights...
...underprivileged. But the author of "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," and "Golden Boy" remained in Hollywood, writing scenarios and letting out an occasional yelp about "every motion-picture being cut on the stone floor of a Wall Street bank." This was paltry assurance of his continued concern with the proletariat...
...committee," dug into a selection of the 100-odd speeches and statements he had delivered between 1939 and 1948. They were speeches of an experienced diplomat who had first been hopeful of friendly relations with a wartime ally, but had watched the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations with growing concern, and had been among the first officials to sound the alarm. Said Acheson: "The things I read about my being an appeaser are so incredible that I cannot believe that even disinterested malevolence could think them...
...caught the current Kremlin fever for art with a rosy-Red message (TIME, March 8). Last week, in a letter to Rinascita, 14 ill-indoctrinated party painters struck back. Among them was 37-year-old Renato Guttuso-one of the best Italian artists living. Art, said their letter, should concern itself with "the struggles of the working class [but] to these struggles it can be an incitement and spur only if it is really...
Rich Widows. As far as he could see, the college president of today was little more than a salesman who "scurries around the country seeking the company of rich widows . . . One gathers the irrefutable impression that the item of major concern ... is not the maturing of the individual . . . but buildings, large, spacious, attractive buildings . . . classrooms with all the new gadgets . . . dormitories with slick, shining, slithering bathrooms . . . The ethics of the counting house . . . too often replace the higher standards common once in education...