In America, his tenure of the Cleveland Orchestra (1972-82) was criticised by his successor, Christoph von Dohnányi, as marked by an over-preoccupation with authoritarianism and beating time rather than phrase-making, but again the discipline could hardly fail to impress.
For Sunnis, pilgrimage is reserved for Mecca and the sect frowns on Shiite's over-preoccupation with Islamic figures besides the Prophet Muhammad.
I was involved with "literature" and given over to preoccupations with art, with language, with my struggle on the American scene, with claims for recognition of my talent, or, like my pals of the Partisan Review, with modernism, Marxism, New Criticism, with Eliot, Yeats, Proust, etc. — with anything except the terrible events in Poland.
Periods when the over-riding preoccupation has been lowering the national debt have coincided with industrial, economic and strategic decline.
In truth, the increasingly pathetic returns on toil in Britain, where the recent trends in productivity have been far worse than in competitors like the US, have been the over-riding preoccupation of economists for years.
The crimes that receive the most attention, the most poring over, reflect the preoccupations of their particular age.
In 1992, it was defined by the NCADD and ASAM as "a primary, chronic disease characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking".
The episode begins with Peggy's day and a heated argument with her boyfriend Abe, over her preoccupation with work and the effect this has on their sex life.
"All modern first ladies can relate to being frustrated with the press over their preoccupation with superficial things, including the way they cut their hair or what they choose to wear, but Melania has clouded the profound responsibility and honor of the position with her own personal resentment," Brower wrote.
These results further point to the balance of benefit to the amount of time spent completing 'tasks' related to ICT interventions and the possibility of over-use engendering detrimental preoccupations related to symptoms and mood state.
Are you conscious of returning to certain preoccupations over time?
