Puccini justified his musical treatment by citing Tosca's preoccupation with teaching Cavaradossi to feign death.
The Finishing School is its own historical novel already, a hilarious and biting satire on the preoccupations of now - Nina, for example, teaching her pupils everything they'll ever need to know, should they think of getting a job at the UN: "If you, as a UN employee, are chased by an elephant, stand still and wave a white handkerchief.
The bill's preoccupation with testing in kindergarten through sixth grade will hasten the flight to private elementary schools, where parents find more nurturing and successful educational philosophies; render elementary school teaching less satisfying for good teachers; and force a reallocation of already limited school funds in the direction of what can be tested.
But it warns against a preoccupation with pre-job training, which often teaches the wrong skills and misses basic graces (such as time-keeping and not being cheeky to the boss) that many claimants lack.
But anxiety, the old-fashioned, neurotic preoccupation of the sort my Freudian progenitors taught me to love and loathe, haunts me nonetheless.
He teaches the techniques of reading personality quirks and preoccupations from what people say they see in ink blots, providing analysis to the Italian courts and to the Vatican, which wants clues to a person's state of mind before deciding on a marriage annulment.
He teaches both basic and esoteric courses related to his life's preoccupation, which is also the subject of his 5-volume life's work.
"He's dragged down the level of discourse for years and years," Professor Marshall Berman says... Jeffries had taught only introductory black studies in recent years, and even that seemed less an academic exercise than a tour of his preoccupations.
Furthermore, Vajrayana teaching emphasizes that the preoccupation with "being too calm" blocks "the recognition of self-existing wakefulness," and that in a Vajrayana context, "it is sometimes said that stillness is not absolutely necessary…" [ 84, pages 85-86].
The kerygmatic, or creedal, beginning was expanded with material about the life and teaching of Jesus, which a reverence for and a preoccupation with the holy figure of Jesus demanded out of loving curiosity about his earthly ministry and life.
