Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pianist Percy Grainger has likened the texture of Ellington's music to that of British Composer Frederick Delius. Scholarly musicians are looking forward to a Duke Ellington review which is scheduled for New York next season. Such lofty recognition has injected no jarring, self-conscious note into Ellington's performances. Ellington and his players cling to the Negro dialect. Hot obligates are still "riffs" to them. Dapper Sonny Greer, probably the world's greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders...
...late great Charles William Eliot (who in his early years was a mathematics and chemistry professor) and under Dr. Lowell, Harvard's presidency was of the very best Boston blue blood. Many a Boston socialite assumed that the aristocratic succession would continue. But the Harvard Corporation was conscious of the "unavailability" of some other candidates and of Dr. Conant's fitting neatly in the Eliot-Lowell intellectual tradition. No appanage of Boston alone. Harvard is the richest university in the U. S. ($117,204,250 endowment) and now has about all it needs in fine buildings...
Next he made what would have been a daring speech for any Japanese statesman less sure of his popularity. Said he: "Now that I have seen Japan from a distance my heart is filled with apprehension for the future. ... I doubt if the nation is conscious of its crisis. No people in the world are so politically conventional as the Japanese. We ought to take a lesson from America, where the President, acting irrespective of political parties, has the support of 90% of the American people in his vigorous actions for the relief of the nation. That sight should give...
...doctrine of non-violence? Ghandi needs no apologies for offering it to the world, which he aptly characterizes "sick unto death of violence." Even on grounds of political expediency its efficacy has been vindicated in India. In an incredibly short period, Ghandi has made multitudes in India politically conscious. A totally disarmed India could not conceivably have accomplished a fragment of this by any other methods except those of Ghandi. The British are finding it very uncomfortable to deal with a potent force that Ghandi has set in motion. Ghandi is anything but a "demagogue." No man since Buddha...
...which the catalogue guaranteed could be done on Monday afternoon, has to be carried over to Tuesday, which is, according to schedule, reserved for Botany. Usually the instructors of any single course are indifferent to the presence of other laboratory courses on the student's program and even if conscious of this could make no allowance for it in the allotment of the work...