Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commenting on student social work in an Old Sailor's Home, the Harvard Illustrated Magazine observed that "The four walls of a student's room mark a narrow horizon." Today, in an even more closely interdependent and socially conscious society; the evision of many Harvard men towards the community surrounding the college seems bounded by the same limitations. It is easy to remain oblivious to the needs of a world outside the Houses and feel satisfied with a tight little circle of friends and what extra-curricular activities the University has to offer. With only three percent of the student...
...centuries of Hindu political inferiority began to be reversed when the great Sivaji in the mid-17th Century led his Marathas against the Moslems. Thus, by the time the British reached India, both Hindu and Moslem were deeply immersed in hate, deeply conscious of dispossession before the British dispossessed both. Through all the changes, Kali, both as mother and as evil, persevered, so that when freedom came there were more Indians than ever to hate each other more intensively than ever...
...show business. Across the street, the Rodgers & Hammerstein Oklahoma!, in its fifth year, was still playing to standees. Playing a few blocks away were three other big hits which the team produced (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary). As the first-night crowd, fully as conscious of its looks as an Agnes de Mille ballet, jostled into the theater, the faintly malicious question in almost everybody's mind was: Would the wonder boys do it again...
...issue, wrote: "At a time when the American way has made the country into the greatest power the world has known, there has never been more doubting and questioning. . . . The higher up one goes, the more searching becomes this selfcriticism. . . . Those who rule America are enormously conscious of the total inadequacy of the crude material philosophy of life in which they grew...
This rather conventional story, shaded with stout "socially conscious" sentiments against commercial ruthlessness, is turned into an unusual movie by Abraham Polansky's taut continuity and sharp dialogue, by Robert Rossen's solid directing, and by Cameraman James Wong Howe's vivid shots of fighting. A good deal of the picture has the cruelly redolent illusion of reality that distinguished many of the movies of low life made in the early...