Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fixed gold content, charging that dollar uncertainty prevented recovery, upset Government credit. The same day the President on his way South (see p. 7) quoted John Stuart Mill's statement: ''History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them." He admitted that the Administration was "guilty of great experimentation" in its efforts to harness the tide...
Moscow has never had a golf course. Soviet sports writers-earnest, class-conscious scribes-have often stigmatized the game as "hopelessly bourgeois." Abruptly last week the Soviet State announced that a Moscow golf course will be built at once, in the frozen dead of winter "to be ready for play by spring." Flags marking the Soviet holes will be red. Instead of crying "Fore!", Red golfers will shout "Davai!" (Russian for "Give!", i. e. "Give...
...been back long before Nick and I decided that we were engaged and that we might as well announce our engagement, as the papers were daily doing it for us. I remember that I felt shy and self-conscious about telling the family that we were engaged. I had the perfectly unwarranted feeling that they might be 'sentimental' about it. I put off telling for a long time. Finally, one evening I followed Mother into her bathroom, and told her the news while she was brushing her teeth, so that she should have a moment to think before...
...More arresting than the psychograph itself is a series of admirable, prints from Brady's portfolio; one of them, a study of General Burnside standing by his camp tent, gives a convincing argument for Daguerre's metallic art as an instrument of high irony. Brady is far less self conscious as an artist than the usual photographic contributors to this magazine, and the clearness of his tones, achieved without the sacrifice of beauty, is surprising for one who worked in so early a stage of camera development...
National Socialism is a conscious attack on anything that might be conceived as liberalism or rationalist intellectualism. It sternly suppresses all work which is not expressive of German national culture. Liberalistic thought scornfully termed "Intellectualism" modernistic or international art, all expression of an individuality which is not creative in the National Socialist sense are emphatically discouraged...