Word: overconcern
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...midst of more-than-the-usual waste, scandal, corruption, and self-absorption, the UC managed to carry out a number of important advocacy goals and structural reforms that will, we hope, make a positive difference to undergraduates next year. But an overabundance of internal politicking and overconcern for the intricate details of the Council’s own internal policies sidetracked the UC from an ambitious and important advocacy agenda. From our perspective, this has certainly been an entertaining year in UC affairs. Unfortunately for the UC, however, that’s not necessarily a good thing...
...says things a lot of people my age group think," explains Doug Tyler, 33, a New Orleans salesman, "but don't have the nerve to express." He's talking about Stern. Tyler, for instance, approves of Stern's Limbaughian screeds against overconcern for criminal defendants. And while Camille Belchere, an artist in Santa Monica, California, regularly finds Stern's breaches of taste over the top -- "There are some times when it gets to be too much for me" -- always, she says, "the next morning I'll turn it on again." ABC News analyst Jeff Greenfield is more a dittohead than...
...adults in our society--their parents, you and I--do not appear to be equally concerned, nor why we have not already made substantial advances toward correcting the many abuses of which they have become conscious--such abuses as the war, poverty, blighted cities, distored values for living, an overconcern with getting and gaining, an absence of loving and caring--these and others...
...cliches, Philistinism in all its phases, imitations of imitations, bogus profundities, crude, moronic and dishonest pseudo-literature, these are obvious examples. Now, if we want to pin down poshlost in contemporary writing we must look for it in Freudian symbolism, moth-eaten mythologies, social comment, humanistic messages, political allegories, overconcern with class or race, and the journalistic generalities we all know...
...June 1965 has a U.S. President or Vice President visited the Continent despite the swift and subtle changes that have overtaken Europe. Last week Hubert Humphrey set out on a two-week, seven-nation European swing aimed at demonstrating that the U.S. has not cut its ties because of overconcern with its transpacific interests. Far from it. The Administration is only too well aware of Europe's problems -and only too eager to resolve those that affect the U.S. The Vice President's voyage of rediscovery was an important first step in Washington's effort...