Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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City Streets (Paramount). Critics may some day, examining the gangster films of 1931, find them significant as perpetuations of a culture which the more self- conscious art-expressions of the day have rejected. For here, in realistic terms, brutalized in content and set going at a breathless pace, are stories and people that are Victor Hugo's stepchildren, many of them highly likeable and articulated with fine ingenuity. In this picture, why does Sylvia Sidney tie her arm in a black sling when her father telephones her to meet him on the corner "if she has to break...
...pointed correctly to North, East, West, South. By & by he became dizzy. Then he began making mistakes,, big ones. Obviously his sense of direction was not infallible. The way his mind worked-and this seems the probable method of homing birds and animals-must be this: without his being conscious of the details he was able to register automatically every turn he made, every landmark he saw, every fixed sound and smell he perceived...
...many loves, and may have thought (thinks Rolland) that she was actually Goethe's daughter. Her own affair with Goethe was rapturous but platonic, except for some early scenes in which the poet behaved himself like Daddy Browning. When Bettina met Beethoven he was still unfamous but very conscious of his worth, and she wrote rhapsodically to Goethe about this unappreciated musical genius. When they finally met, however, Goethe thought Beethoven uncouth; Beethoven considered Goethe an anxious snob. When they met some royalty a-walking, Beethoven barged right through the middle of them, snorting plebeian resentment, while Goethe stood...
...stories are news (bursting dikes, sly yarns of the fat Prince Consort, heartthrobs about Crown Princess Juliana), 99% of the U. S. Press and all three major U. S. news services made no mention whatever last week of the Waterler Peace Prize. It was reported to the foreign-news-conscious New York Herald Tribune by dutiful Correspondent Herbert Antcliffe...
...where men meeting to honor their faiths must be watched by a police force to prevent them from cutting one another's throats. But whether ironic or not, this is the case, and it is typical of religions in every period. People in the west today are far more conscious of the discrepancy between ideal and actuality in a situation such as this, than the people of a generation or two ago. For the recognition of the principle of religious toleration is one of the developments of modern times and has not yet been fully realized...