Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work, which has been compared to Thackeray's by Clifton "Information Please" Fadiman of the New Yorker, Marquand said, "The awful thing in writing in to take yourself too seriously. I don't want ever to feel I'm a great writer I want to be only too conscious of my own defects. Nor do I yearn to write a 'monumental work...
...strong condemnation of professors who constantly "play to the galleries" to achieve popularity, Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of sociology, launched an attack on the "fad" courses which are taught and promoted by spectator-conscious teachers...
...Flemings constitute half Belgium's population. Increasingly conscious of their numbers, they have demanded-and got-more political power. As fast as possible they have been pulling the nation away from its French moorings. During the World War many Flemish districts were pro-German. Now many Flemings flaunt a desire to join up with The Netherlands...
...were to be abolished by the decision rendered today, it would be mechanically impossible for the morrow's voting to be constitutionally discontinued. This is the extent to which the Student Council is confident of a confirmation for its stand. The referendum comes when the whole class is politically conscious and expectant over the outcome. It comes when many Yardling groups have a vested interest in the current election, and are consequently unwilling to forego a chance to vote. It comes with such lightning rapidity that every freshman will hesitate to take such a mighty step with such great dispatch...
...frivolous attitude toward democratic forms which this situation produces does greater harm than a complete failure to exercise a democratic prerogative. The opportunity to vote will be offered students under far more auspicious circumstances in later years. In the Yard, however, elections are synonymous with hypocrisy, and freshmen conscious of this will abolish the two together...