Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Virginia Woolf: "Ulysses was a memorable catastrophe-immense in daring, terrific in disaster." Said U. S. Critic Henry Louis Mencken to Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald: "Why, that book is full of smut!" Says Critic Henry Seidel Canby: "Joyce is a pioneer in the technique of the stream-of-consciousness novel, and very influential. His books, however, lack the control of a great artist." Says Editor Ellery Sedgwick (Atlantic Monthly)'. "In Ulysses Joyce made an original contribution to tragic literature, highly stimulating to conscious writers of subconscious fiction." Controversy still rages about whether or not Ulysses is really obscene...
...hard at work there in the name of oil conservation. As his train sped him back from Los Angeles to Washington and an office stacked with the most technically complex problems of the Hoover administration, he left behind him a large group of California oil operators more conservation-conscious than ever before. Secretary Wilbur's parting words had been: "Unless oil operators quit squabbling, the government will have to take charge...
There is a naivete about "Babes in Toyland" which is sufficiently conscious O lend an atmosphere of sophistication smacking of the "Black Crook" era no doubt, but tremendously refreshing in a time when smartness lies chiefly in nudity and "frank" jokes. Moreover, the lyrics have much of the W. S. Gilbert playfulness that are original enough to make them thoroughly effective. It is particularly interesting to find the source of many of the clever modern witticisms in a production of the past...
...defensive but also as an offensive weapon and the result was steadily applied pressure in enemy territory. The Yale attack was broken and the Harvard offensive got under way immediately without the preliminary skating back to gather momentum. It all boils down to the team's getting "attack conscious...
...quietly that few were conscious of his going, Frederic Moseley Sackett, until lately Senator from Kentucky, sailed out of New York harbor last week aboard the S. S. President Harding to take up the first diplomatic duty of his life as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. With him went Mrs. Sackett. Their departure was almost drab. Only a handful of friends Godsped them from the Hoboken pier. In contrast to the departure for Paris of Ambassador Edge, that other Senator also just beginning a diplomatic career, nobody asked Ambassador Sackett to make any farewell speeches. Nobody gave him any parting...