Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lovely is not a word that comes often or naturally to the lips of Kansas Citians themselves. They are aware of their slums and stockyards as well as of their elm-shaded streets and comfortable homes. The city is self-conscious about its culture and somewhat nostalgic about its hell-raising past, and looks down its nose at drab Kansas City, Kansas "across the viaduct." Only 225 miles from the geographical center of the U.S., it has the drive of the East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West...
...apparent now. But the wish and the cry for it are here. If Europe's millions have any defined yearning, it is for a belief, a life, a place worth having and holding. The immediate symptoms of this half-conscious need are two common emotions, which will condition many of the attitudes which we encounter with our aid in Europe. One is pride. The other is guilt...
Reading from left to right, Adams flourishes as the center of a hardy HYD cell. It has, of course, a goodly number of middle of the readers, but the function chiefly to keep the left from becoming too over-conscious of the offenses of the right, and, conversely, to keep the right from the throats of the left. And the right is strong in Adams: it is second only to Eliot in club...
When it comes to athletics, Adams takes a back seat, having experience a conspicuous lack of success in the past few years. But then this situation gives athletically conscious Yardlings the chance to get in on the ground floor of the projected revival. Perhaps 1948 will be the "next year" Adams House men have been "waiting till" for a long, long time...
...many ways Dunster lies on the frontier of the College. Physically it is the most removed, politically it is the most "conscious," and socially it is the most daring...