When people were telling Jeremy Thorpe jokes, he was 12. Generationally speaking, he and Obama were in the right place at the right time — they are the elder statesmen of the ever-growing part of the population for which the preoccupations of the baby boomers are not very relevant.
No one is better at explicating the role of personal character in public life, particularly the ways in which a preoccupation with honor, or reputation, informed 18th-century gentlemen's approach to power.
The book was so successful that Lamartine attempted to extend it two years later with his Nouvelles méditations poétiques and his Mort de Socrates, in which his preoccupation with metaphysics first became evident.
We use items from the PSYRATS to assess the severity of hallucinations and delusions according to the specific dimensions of interest to the study which include preoccupation, conviction, distress and disruption to life.
It is more plausible to see the role of government as facilitators of public-private partnerships in which its preoccupation will be towards creating public awareness and setting standards for best practices rather than the direct provision of services especially for non-fatal chronic conditions.
We don't know much else about them, which makes their preoccupations more intensely absurd and also more grotesque.
The brothers had signature preoccupations, which they discussed with excitable urgency, talking into the camera at tremendous speed.
"It takes them beyond their daily preoccupations, which is what we need to do as we center," she said.
And this is the point at which the thematic preoccupations of "On the Road" meet the style of "On the Road" — the lyrical, gushing, excessive prose.
There was always a part of the dance world that resisted these preoccupations, which regarded Cunningham as too cerebral, too weird.
