Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their methods are spectacular and press-conscious. The strategy is to get prominent men to speak on subjects which they conceive to be related to their cause, but it is impossible o discern any cause behind their eccentric gyrations. The Student Union supports a plan to bring Jewish student refugees to Harvard, and some of the Independents crack back with a plan, however commendable, to bring South American students here, as if to show that the Union has no monopoly on humanitarianism and the interests of democracy. The implication is that their policy derives from a reaction against that...
...mere passing fad, accelerated by the Metropolitan Museum's acceptance of a few pictures and by a college professor's study of Disney work. But when they say this they are not looking at the facts, for the American public as a whole has long been conscious and long interested in animated movies, and there is no indication of cessation in this interest. It is almost safe to predict that the American public will continue to enjoy this art as long as it is produced and that it will be remembered and stay alive as long as our present cultural...
...great wrestlers cannot be developed by men who have been taught to stall. In the wrestling game, more than any other sport, perhaps, the greatest defense for a smart wrestler is aggressiveness. Olympic wrestlers are of this type, and many potential Olympic stars have been ruined by a point-conscious coach...
...reveal my full distress over the departure of Robin Feild? If it were my choice, he would be at Harvard always. I am, however, conscious that it is not my choice, and should not be. If this were, we should logically end by electing our teachers. . . . Alden Clarke...
...years ago Ralph Bates was just another energetic, down-and-out, class-conscious workingman, while Ernest Hemingway was an energetic, up-and-coming, self-conscious writing man. Today, Bates's Spanish civil war stories are better than Hemingway's. Bates lived revolution; when it came, he could almost write it with his eyes shut...