Word: conciousnesses
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...Lutheran Church of America." But, in some ways she finds Harvard less advanced than Augustana. "Back home, people were thought of as people," she says. When she came here, for instance, she was surprised by the dearth of women and minorities in the classroom. "I was never really concious of being a 'woman' until I got here. I expected a lot from Harvard. I was amazed
...reader should be left to make his own correlations; as the rule goes, "Show, don't tell." The style is occasionally marred by obtrusive Latinate words, self-concious allusions, and a few impossible blunders...
...that set women on edge. His high-strung nature made him good at whipping through economics problem sets, but his inability to have a simple good time with people did not endear him to many. His laughter was forced and his jumpiness scared people off. He was especially self-concious around women, so he was even more jumpy around them, and they gave him an extra wide berth...
They know that if the South is to rise again, it will not be with Confederate dollars. With a fervor which rivals Southern Baptism, they cultivate Northern investment. They are inordinately self-concious and are feverishly concerned about the "image of the South." Because ready capital has replaced the boll weevil as the South's most persistent problem, they are willing even to forsake sacred traditions to attract outside investment...
...Bostonians, many of them professors at M.I.T., Brandeis, and Boston University, challenged Khrushchev's repeated assertions that the Soviet Union is dedicated to peace and disarmament. "We are convinced that any nation that puts its own military security above the interests of humanity as a whole is making a concious choice that will inevitably lead to a thermonuclear war," they stated...