Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passage in his remarkable, prophetic book, The Army of the Future,* published by Colonel de Gaulle in 1934. He wrote: "The depth, the singularity, the self-sufficiency of a man made for great deeds is not popular except at critical times. Although when in contact with him one is conscious of a superiority which compels respect, he is seldom liked. Moreover, his faculties, shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. And so he would be condemned to emasculation or corruption, if he lacked the grim impulse...
...five and ten, Prince Michael and Princess Alexandra, son & daughter of the photogenic Duchess of Kent, already faced pretty heavy responsibilities. At Westminster next week, he would be a page and she a bridesmaid. Meantime they did their royal best to look like an unposed, unself-conscious family for the photographers...
...whole generation of socially conscious writers have walked through the door which Dreiser opened with Sister Carrie and The Financier. In The Stoic, Dreiser is at the end of the corridor, looking backwards. A blazer of trails, he was nevertheless a poor guide; his limitations as a thinker were summed up in his autobiography: "Chronically nebulous, doubting, uncertain, I stared at everything, only wondering, not solving...
Apparently unaware of its ragged line, aerial-conscious Leverett whipped a ground-stubborn Dunster football squad 25 to 0 yesterday, while Winthrop was being taken for a 35 to 0 ride by the Commuters...
...difficulties, but especially the rough ten percent that gets "involved" with the delicate machinery of parietal and scholastic rules; in these cases, Bender is both judge and jury. He probably champs at the bit at many of these interviews, while he plans a Harvard that is a more socially conscious community...