Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Underlying this attitude is recognition of the needs for making the individual conscious of his own relation to government--to society. The broad terms of the gift should permit full development of this concept. All obstacles that might spring from the narrow whims of a more prejudiced benefactor are removed when it is stated that "the new school shall be organized and conducted not merely to train technical specialists but to educate men in a broad way for public service...
...Standing in Arlington National Cemetery over the grave of the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day, 1921, Warren G. Harding declared: "There must, there shall be a commanding voice of conscious civilization against armed warfare. . . . Knowing that the world is noting this expression of the Republic's mindfulness, it is fitting to say that [the Unknown Soldier's] sacrifice and that of the millions dead shall not be in vain...
...During the few seconds preceding the jump, the predominant mental factors were fear and excitement. . . . Throughout the free fall, all conscious mental processes seemed normal. As soon as the airplane was cleared, fear and excitement disappeared...
...spectator is conscious of the drabness of the milien and the smallness of the figure in proportion to the setting. Since the artist wanted to emphasize class and mass rather than the individual, the workers are not strongly characterized. This phase of Liebermann is illustrated by such etchings as the Weavers or the Net Menders...
...There is a seeming contradiction between the conscious individual aversion to war and the collective preparedness to wage war. This is explained by the fact that the behaviour, the feelings, the thoughts of an independent individual are quite different from those of a man who forms part of a collective whole. Civilized twentieth century man still possesses strong, fierce and destructive instincts, which have not been sublimated, or only partly so, and which break loose as soon as the community to which he belongs feels itself threatened by danger...