But MoveOn's management team — led by Eli Pariser, a 25-year-old Internet whiz — runs a sophisticated political operation, and its main preoccupation, beyond ending the Iraq war, is to keep growing.
But our culinary preoccupations extend beyond simply what we eat to questions of how it's produced, distributed, prepared and shared.
Why do chick-lit authors create ditzy heroines whose intelligence is strictly emotional – and even then a bit hit-and-miss – and whose preoccupations seldom extend beyond fashionable handbags and romantic fantasies.
It takes the blood, sweat, tears and physicality of his former preoccupations and goes beyond: an essay in outrage and injustice, and a visualisation of an end to tyranny.
Instead of trailing NBC running after the American housewife on the verge of her impossibly busy day, why not try a show for young people, with young people in charge, young people serving as talent, one that has preoccupations that go beyond family.
While government's role would be to provide encouragement and incentives, the current environment puts the onus on the private sector to take the lead – and to adopt a constructive long-term view, extending beyond politicians' preoccupations with running the next election.
When depicting his main characters' inner turmoil, Richardson moves well beyond his hortatory preoccupations.
"It takes them beyond their daily preoccupations, which is what we need to do as we center," she said.
Having more donors would mean they could expand their activities beyond the immediate preoccupations of their current donors, 't Hoen said, to include, for instance, cancer drugs and hepatitis C treatment.
In the circumstances it's not surprising that Aldous turned out to be a writer who ranged far beyond the usual preoccupations of literary folk – into history, philosophy, science, politics, mysticism and psychic exploration.
