Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost its sheen. Henry and his devoted second wife (beauteous Elsie Marie Whelen of Philadelphia) moved again, this time to the idyllic seclusion of an 8th-Century fortress-monastery at La Napoule, on the shores of the Mediterranean. There they set about to create their Never-Never Land. Self-conscious Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting. La Napoule's villagers regarded his wealth...
Eric Linklater's novels range from the picaresque (Juan in America) to Aristophanes in modern dress (The Impregnable Women), from satire on English middle-class respectability (Ripeness Is All) to the saga of his Viking forbears (The Men of Ness). This week he adds to these a class-conscious study of history's archtraitor. Its thesis: Judas was a man of property attracted by Christ's teaching of peace and love, who finally betrayed his Master when he decided Christ was an anarchist whose success would mean the end of property rights...
...built on the best local coverage in town. Of the afternoon papers, Hearst's Call-Bulletin is a shrill screamer, the Scripps-Howard News a tired liberal. If Paul Smith can put over the city's only home-owned newspaper as a liberal, world-conscious sheet, he may make...
...frontier was far more tolerant of Bret Harte, according to Author Walker's records, than Harte ever admitted. A slender, curly-haired, sickly New York boy, who had read Shakespeare at six, Bret (whose friends sometimes called him Fanny) was a self-conscious literary man, who prospected in patent-leather shoes, drove a stagecoach only long enough to get his literary stake. He wrote his frontier successes when he had long been sitting comfortably behind a desk. Far from being unappreciated, when the Atlantic Monthly offered him $10,000 a year, the frontier went the limit to hold...
...From the Manure Pile. The News's touch with the common people is no accident, but the result of self-conscious effort on the part of its publisher, who is famed for his rough-&-ready dress, his brusque manners and his liking for rubbing shoulders with the proletariat in saloons and subways. A rich boy himself, Joe Patterson never got along with other rich boys, had made several sporadic efforts to become a man of the people before he found his chance as a publisher. From 1914 until 1925 he and his cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running...