Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While we are in an inflation-conscious mood, we might as well decide to be realistic about the current labor-management negotiations in the steel industry. As long as management is free to set its own prices, why should they bother to do anything else than follow the time-honored pattern of putting up a noisy but purely token fight? All they need do is haggle awhile and then give in. It is the public's money that they are bargaining with...
...date as a London councilor's remark: "Every man carries his caste mark in his mouth." But last week, with diction and elocution classes flourishing throughout Britain and the BBC spreading its own slightly precious brand of proper accent into every home, caste-conscious Britain was still confronted by an unexpected phenomenon of the welfare state: equality of opportunity had eased the economic tensions in Marx-proclaimed "class conflict," but it had led to a sharp increase in what the sociologists call "status conflict"-in other words, snobbism...
Like most painters. Carles hoped for public confirmation that his new abstract direction was valid. In the socially conscious U.S. art world of the 1930s, such confirmation was not forthcoming. (In 1936 Leger visited him in Philadelphia, was amazed to find "anything like this going on in America.") Carles began painting and repainting the same canvases until they were too heavy to lift. The World War II migration of Paris painters -Chagall, Mondrian et al.-to Manhattan finally produced the understanding audience Carles longed for, but it was too late. In 1941 Carles suffered a stroke, and though he lingered...
Cater stresses, however, that the news which is manufactured by a planned leak, by a timed press release, by a publicity-conscious Senator, by a harried President at press conference time, or by a Congressional investigation aimed at headline capturing is not necessarily the news which the public needs to know. Operating under the pressure to get a story which will sell papers, and under the realization that he lacks the sophistication to handle complicated scientific, diplomatic and economic decisions, the Washington reporter cannot fulfill, Cater maintains, his ideal role as public informant...
...within the press corps of the enormous power it holds and of the manifold ways in which that power and its holders can be used. The mechanical pitfalls in the way of commuting the "truth" from Washington to the reader who moves his lips can only be met by conscious and conscientous reporters. There are, Carter says, too few of them and too many pitfalls...