Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their work is easier to classify by age and sex than by country. Seven-year-old boys living on opposite sides of the globe are more apt to paint alike than a brother & sister a couple of years apart. The world of imagination, like the world of men, demands conscious loyalties, and all of the young exhibitors showed themselves able and loyal subjects of Andersen's fairy kingdom...
...West Virginia authorities were so well pleased with results of wholesale lobotomies on mental patients (TIME, June 22) that Surgeon Walter Freeman began a new series of 140. Of 510 previously operated on, 185 have gone home, saving the purse-conscious state $118,748; most are still hospitalized but "less destructive" ; five died of brain hemorrhages...
...second year in a row, Hollywood had to let television take over the biggest event of the movie year-the Academy Awards. Dressed in their best, the cream of Hollywood glided up to the Pantages Theater in their Cadillacs and filed into their $12 seats, all the while meekly conscious of the ubiquitous eyes of the TV cameras and the 40 million or so home viewers. The big show itself was suitably glamorous, much like a 1930-style movie revue, and in some respects, all too typical of television...
When a certified intellectual leads a long cheer for the U.S.-and moreover invites the jeers of his fellows by calling his book God's Country and Mine-it amounts to a conscious act of courage. French-born Jacques Barzun, 46, professor of history at Columbia University, has some reservations about his adopted country. The subtitle of his book is "A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words." But even after his grudging left hand has taken away some of what his generous right has dished out. God's Country still comes as a welcome antidote...
While Schuyler's play illustrates the danger of triteness, The Man Who Walked in a Ray of Sunshine, translated by Roger Shattuck from the French verse of Rene Char, shows how an interesting idea can be obscured by too conscious a striving for economy. Set at the gates of Heaven, the play concerns a cocky young man who dances to seduce an angel sent to judge whether he is worthy of admission. He fails; she dances away and lets him fall, and a jury of humans, sitting outside the gates, exits in disgust at the rejection of its fair-haired...