Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Bread" the cinema becomes socially conscious and treats with a theme that is truly proletarian. In an attempt to give a "powerful" treatment to a story of the common man harassed by truly gigantic economic forces, King Vidor has an obvious sincerity. Because of this notable sincerity and the courage of the theme itself, one is loathe to level the criticism of triteness against "Our Daily Bread." But sympathetic as one may be to such a sudden nobility in movie subjects, and we do believe this to be genuinely sincere, it is hard to see any symptoms of masterpiece...
...happened down at the Field House. The self-conscious sophomore was trying to play the solicitous big brother to the man in the next locker...
...noon the staff will arrive to find a woman as editor. It is not due to any persistent interference by Mrs. Reid, who rarely meddles visibly in news matters, but to the feeling that she could interfere if she would. All Herald Tribune editorial men are far more acutely conscious of Mrs. Reid, although they may not see her for a full month, than they are of bald, likable, easy-going Ogden Mills Reid whose office is on their own floor. A contributing factor is that Mrs. Reid is sternly Dry, which most Herald Tribune men, including her husband...
...wide one between the refusal of hospitality and the refusal of the gift is evidenced by the hospitality extended by Harvard last spring to Mr. Hanfstaengl. It is highly probable that President Angell would have done the same as President Conant in refusing the preferred support. However, he is conscious of the inflexible obligations of hospitality. He is merely extending a courtesy to Fascist students which would undoubtedly be returned...
...Prizefighters, prostitutes, plain people of all kinds are the modern tragic heroes, and modern authors write about them in Promethean language. Time was when farmers figured in literature only as comic oafs or sullen clodhoppers, but Now in November pipes a more stately pastoral. Written with a slightly self-conscious sonority, this story of a Missouri farm reads like a poeticized almanac with a tragic ending...