Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college magazine can not now well fulfill, they are none the less moving for that. Mr. Hay, in an editorial which celebrates the magazine's revival, is more restrained. Unfortunately he and his contemporaries live in the Thirties. They have before them the example of a preceding 'generation, self-conscious and "young," which preempted the qualities of youth, its postures and certainties, and still clutches them at the grave's edge...
...trouble is not with the authors, but is in the self-conscious questioning attitude with which the sitter receives his portrait. Sensitive readers, who did not feel themselves portrayed, and who were thus able to maintain a comparative detachment, were a little saddened by, no mater how much they admired, the unbending Mr. Apley. But as usual the most thorough condemnation came from the condemned. The saddest sentence of all came from the Boston Evening Transcript, in discussing Mr. Marquand upon the occasion of his engagement: "'George Apley' is Mr. Marquand's best book. Mr. Edgett of the Transcript...
...hands. George was small, wiry, tough, shrewd; Lennie was enormous, floppy-looking but Herculean, and a halfwit. George and Lennie were pals. Lennie was always getting them into trouble, losing them jobs, getting them run out of town because he liked to pet things - mice, little girls, rabbits. Not conscious of his blundering strength, Lennie was apt to kill what he petted. George kept him in line as well as he could by bawling him out, threatening to leave him, telling him a beautiful fairy story about how they would save enough money to buy a little farm, settle down...
...Women - Clare Boothe's clinical study of the man-conscious...
...portrait signed by the artist Aga Riza. This is dated about two and a half centuries later, from the end of the sixteenth century. Now there is no epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a celebrated artist. Now it is studied delicacy of drawing, conscious rhythm of inner and outer line, but there is still the Persian abstraction. The body is without weight, a mere pattern of pleasing shapes of color, the pose is without stability...