Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...displayed in her lectures. She talked from Maine to Texas; and though it is said that no man is a prophet in his own country, Miss Lowell could jam Paine Hall and the lecture-room at the Boston Public Library--and repeat these accomplishments. She made a nation poetry-conscious...
...matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when Sassoon describes the mental hospital, where the shell-shocked patients were cheerful and normal curing the days. But at night "they lost control and the hospital became sepulchral and oppressive with saturations of War experience. . . . One became conscious that the place was full of men whose slumbers were morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying out in their sleep. Around me was that underworld of dreams haunted by submerged memories of warfare and its intolerable shocks and self-lacerating failures to achieve the impossible. By daylight...
There would be no cause for such ceremony if Harvard were celebrating a three-hundredth birthday and nothing more. In such a case Billy Rose and his Fort Worth debutantes or Rufus Dawes and his Chicago millions could put on a show to make the American public Harvard-conscious to an undreamed of degree. It would be no less hypocritical to rejoice if this were a university from which all attributes but old age had long since field. Leave that to Heidelberg and Bologna...
...Lowell's writing and life Mr. Brooks finds the beginnings of the self-conscious cleverness that was foreign to the old New England tradition and that was soon to reach its highest expression in the work of Henry James. He sees Lowell as lacking the calm integrity of his great predecessors as well as their depth of feeling, makes a better case against him. and indirectly against Henry James, than he made in The Pilgrimage of Henry James...
...these portraits are, the great achievement of The Flowering of New England lies in the beautiful discussions of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau. There is a sunlit, morning mood in all Van Wyck Brooks's writing on Emerson, but he has never equaled his new picture of the unself-conscious Sage of Concord who, with his inexhaustible buoyancy and courage, found in the simple life, in disregard for riches, the secret that unlocked his creative genius Of Hawthorne, Mr. Brooks draws a bolder and darker portrait, seeing him as the link between New England and the Middle Ages. A great writer...