Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the microphones on grandmother Bowen's veranda. His first words were for the reporters and photographers: "First let me say how much I regret the inconvenience that all of you newsmen have suffered." Then he turned to the subject of the hour: "... I have never been more conscious of the appalling responsibilities of the office. I did not seek it. I did not want it. I am, however, persuaded that to shirk it, to evade, to decline would be to repay honor with dishonor. I shall go now to the convention hall and accept the nomination...
Self-Realization disciples claim that their teacher thus performed mahasamadhi (a yogi's conscious exit from the body). The medical verdict was "acute coronary occlusion," i.e., a heart attack...
While the brain is roughly compartmented for distinct types of work (e.g., emotional, intellectual), there is no sharp division between brain processes which accompany conscious and unconscious mental activity, said Sir Russell. "Mind, therefore . . . cannot . . . be identified with consciousness, or to put the same thing another way, there are large and important parts of the brain which are concerned with . . . solving problems while we sleep, making jokes, creating the characters who people our dreams, and contributing that vital element which we call inspiration to the work of the artist, poet and novelist...
...fall. Once he is out of the sound field, he is all right again, and when he has gained experience, he learns how to stand up in spite of wobbling knees. Apparently the sound waves interfere with the functioning of his nervous system, which normally maintains his equilibrium without conscious signals from his brain. With training, the brain can be made to tell the muscles how to keep the man standing...
Some of the best modern writers have been self-conscious artists, working for the admiration of small followings and often requiring cabalistic analysis before they could be fully understood. Not, however, Sholom Aleichem, the Ukraine-born Yiddish humorist who died in The Bronx 36 years ago. Sholom Aleichem (real name: Solomon Rabinowitz) was a genuine folk artist. Between himself and his Yiddish public throughout the world there was an instinctive understanding; they could grasp his twists of idiom, his slightest reference to a Torah phrase or a ghetto custom...