Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connolly lists the other enemies that combine to destroy Mr. Shelleyblake- the pointing finger of international politics (which makes him ashamed to sit tight in an ivory tower), the fatal praise that he receives for socially conscious essays, the damning embarrassment of friends who once hymned his promise...
...apparatus' assignments was to infiltrate the U.S. Government with Communist Party members. One day in Washington, in the summer of 1935, a dumpy little man, feeling self-conscious in the first white linen suit he had ever worn, confronted a tall, well-dressed young Government attorney. The little man was Whittaker Chambers; the other was Alger Hiss...
...five, to the personal lyrics he had once sung so well. From England came the apocalyptic chants of Edith Sitwell, who had journeyed a long way from her early preciosities. Her Song of the Cold contained some good war poetry. (It was a year in which America became Sitwell conscious, and the touring Sitwells discovered America. Osbert Sitwell sketched an acid portrait of his delightfully eccentric father in Laughter in the Next Room; Sacheverell, youngest of the literary family, celebrated the minor arts of peace in The Hunters and the Hunted...
...Yale colleges also seem to provide more opportunity for mixing than is found here, though they are hardly melting-pots. Extra-curricular activities also are more college-conscious at Yale than they are House-conscious at Harvard. Yale's strong debate team is grounded in a college debate league, while a Debate Council effort to set up a House debate league has failed to attract much support...
...conscious seniors will get a chance to talk to representatives of several large companies during the next few weeks through a series of interviews to be sponsored here by the Office of Student Placement...