Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Goldwater shows that Paul Gauguin, who pursued the primitive to Tahiti, was not the first artist to make a touchdown: "artists' voyages after his time lessened rather than increased in extent." Furthermore. Romantic Primitivism. the conscious desire to convey the fundamentals of life, arose among various 19th-Century artists before much, if anything, was known of aboriginal art. The Fauves ("Wild Beasts") in France around 1905 found African sculpture an exciting curiosity, but shared Vlaminck's amusement at the pompous way their followers took...
...share for each six now held 156,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. common at $20 a share (last week's market price: $33). It will be the first new financing by an important aviation company since Boeing raised $3,789,600 in June 1937. Rearmament-conscious Wall Street thought other cash-shy aircraft manufacturers might follow the Martin lead...
...more ways than one. Spasmodically a few other Houses pursued the same plan, but it was only the initiative of a few men that saved an extremely beneficial custom from dying out. Here is a palliative for the injuries of over-specialization, yet very few people are even conscious of its existence...
...politics have always played a big part in Nobel Prize selections. In politically-conscious Europe Pearl Buck is famed for The Good Earth, for her pungent, telling attacks on dictators, for her tributes to the common people of China. In a broadcast to Sweden, modest Pearl Buck said simply that the award should have gone to Theodore Dreiser...
...Fridays and Saturdays. On those days, when there are always from one to twenty beautiful girls in the back of the hall, getting in shape for football or other athletic events, he indulges in brilliant cross-examination of his self-conscious wards. On Monday he is back at the Latin...