Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most sincere, and for that reason perhaps the best contribution is the story, "Community Nurse" by J. A. Strauss. The self-conscious detachment which the criticism labored to maintain is here replaced by an unaffected and sensitive objectivity. It is true that the realism is frequently too studiously casual, yet the tension and the pathos of a small town in the Southwest have been caught with remarkable fidelity. The articulation of the story is sometimes creaky; Jack and Laura, for instance, as characters are lorded more heavily than their shoulders can bear. Yet it would be well...
...publicity than such atrabilious statements and sincerely, gloriously angry, Manhattan's two great Bohemian art societies opened simultaneous rival shows last week. The Independents were organized in 1917 by John Sloan, one of the best of U. S. etchers, to emulate the no-jury shows which in art-conscious Paris used sometimes to approach the pinnacle of Paris success-a street riot. The Salons of America, an offshoot, was started four years later by disgruntled Independents. As anyone might have predicted, the fight this year centered upon the now hoary squabble between Rivera and Rockefeller Center, in which both...
...tendency of private education is to make insufferable little snobs of our offspring-not through the influence of the teachers but through the influence of other class-conscious pupils-and what is more intolerable (and intolerant) than a child-snob? But I would risk that (and it is a mighty unworthy parent who is unable to offset Phariseeism at home) if I could make sure of securing for my children the influence of teachers to whom their job is not just a pay envelope and a step higher on the ladder of respectability than the rung to which they were...
...class were a little queer. But here in big black headlines was the appalling assertion that no less than 1,500 of New York's public school teachers were actually unbalanced. Many were hopelessly insane, some almost maniacs. Reading down, startled parents learned of a teacher so self-conscious that she had poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another had sat furred and hatted in a warm room complaining that the janitor was trying to freeze her. Several had commuted to work...
...line. "I talk with my baton," he told the campaigners. In intermission while he was changing his shirt, rubbing his face with cologne, one of the Philharmonic directors said his birthday message for him: "I am a conductor and outside of the province of my own work I am conscious of the lack of power to give expression to my feelings, either to a visible or a radio audience. . . . We recognize our great responsibility. For if I fail in bringing you accurately what has been written, or if this great orchestra fails by one note, we cannot make the perfect...