Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few years, Russia seems to have become increasingly conscious of the great possibilities offered by her Asiatic possessions, and has asserted herself as a great colonizing and assimilating power, he said...
Poet Heine, lover of paradox, led a life full of contradiction. Born in Düsseldorf, 1797 he grew up in a period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love...
...while he is still one of the just-a-big-boy school, he manages to escape the callowness of the Princeton man. The Yale man is a lively, boisterous, generous host, and the most rahrah college man cast of the Alleghenies . . . He is apt to be too clothes conscious, too worshipful of unpicturesque tradition, and too conscientious about his weekends in New York, but his junior prom is the peak of most girls' prom trotting ambitious. from the Dartmouth
...Broadway this fall on a number of Sunday nights. I've Got the Tune, with Composer Blitzstein singing the role of Mr. Musiker, was his and the Workshop's first venture in radio operetta. For some listeners, Blitzstein's mocking libretto was not without class-conscious implications, even his wiry-muscled music suggesting the notion voiced in The Cradle Will Rock-that "there's something so damned low about the rich...
Temporarily, however, grim, Orval Adams was free to return to his opposition to the New Deal. In his brief acceptance speech last week, President Adams announced as his prime objective: "We Must Do Our Part Toward Making All of the People Deficit Conscious...