Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, TIME'S subscription agent is a law student by the name of Paul Halprin, better known on the campus as Mr. Magazine. Says he: "The students come here from all over the world and almost every country in the British Commonwealth. Naturally they are very news-conscious, and I find that over a cup of coffee at the 'Café' is the best time to put in a plug for the magazine. One factor that I run into selling TIME is the weather. In winter the thermometer stays below zero 90% of the time, and getting...
...English department, conscious also of the aimless groove into which tutorial can fall, has experimented with a tutorial plan fitted into regular section meetings. The superiority of the Economics plan is evident: tutorial can remain unfettered by the limitations of one particular course and still-be assessed at the end of the year...
...busts of men from Edmund Burke to Patrick Henry; old globes and Italian Renaissance tables fill in the niches. The Trustee's room on the fourth floor is a remarkably beautiful oval room whose bookshelves contain Washington's Mt. Vernon collection, and whose cabinets house the effluvia of a conscious literary tradition, a letter from Washington, a bronze cast of Whitman's hand, and a book entitled, Life of a Highwayman, bound in his own skin. The effect of this room, with its slow ticking Grandfather's clock and polished center table, mirrors the feeling of the whole Atheneum...
There is little "conscious bias or distortion in the coverage of foreign news," says I.P.I. "But there is distortion that comes from the absence of interpretation...
...Thousand Days ends with a triumphant report of Roosevelt's victory, and the happy notation that F.D.R. seemed about ready to "move" against the anti-New Deal oldsters on the Supreme Court-a fight in which "I hope to be able to take part." With an air of conscious righteousness, he records a piece of White House scuttlebutt: F.D.R. is about to sack more than half his Cabinet,* but will reappoint Honest Harold...