Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because it forbids such professional monkeyshines as sadistic holds and Promethean agonies, intercollegiate wrestling is generally considered about as dull as sport can get. Not so in the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., home of wrestling conscious Lehigh, where the great grunt-&-groan is taken as seriously as football. Last week 800 Bethlehemites-town & gown alike-trekked 120 miles to New Haven, Conn, to see Lehigh's wrestlers compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships...
...hero, a middle-aged intellectual and student, has passed through successive estrangements from bourgeois life. At each removal he becomes more conscious of his spiritual liberation but also of his solitude. He broods upon his wolflike nature until only suicide is left. But in the course of a lonely ramble he is enticed into the "magic theater" of postwar German gaiety-a fantasy of despairing brilliance in vices and anodynes. Here he finds that self-knowledge is the knowledge of multiple selves. Though he falls in love with a courtesan, thinking himself happy, his disintegration proceeds...
...receipts, T.V. went on, the only recourse was the printing press. But the course of inflation could have been stopped after the Japanese war-"if there had been internal peace. . . . Instead of peace and reconstruction, the country was plunged into war and destruction by the Communists . . . [whose] deliberate and conscious . . . aim was to destroy the economic system so that the Government would collapse...
...still a wartime ally by giving super-explosives to the U.S. but withholding them from Russia. Now Canada was going aggressively "imperialist" as a "junior partner" of the U.S. The party would fight this policy and would look for support to the trade-union movement and the "politically conscious forces in French Canada." These bucko words were more exaggerated than usual. The Reds did have potent cells or control in many a Canadian union, e.g., the International Woodworkers of America, and the Canadian Fishermen's Union (TIME, Jan. 13). But anti-Red movements are strong in some...
...notions is that some children should be placed on an island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense" will he experience true "illumination," "inward experience...