Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known and undisputed fact that there has never been a summa thesis in the last ten years which has not had a colon in the title. Many of these theses have had two colons in the title. the significance of this fact cannot be denied: Harvard college is colon-conscious. It is far more important to say it with a colon is scholarly. Consequently, the first mechanical aid is the constant and overbearing use of the colon. A colon is the difference between a C and a B in a term paper, between a cum and a magna...
...folklore and custom of politics, Inauguration Day is open season for hearty handshakes, clinking glasses, the rustle of silks, and self-conscious twisting in rented tuxedos. But for the crop of newly elected governors who raised their hands in solemn oath across the nation last week, inauguration seemed more like an augury of trouble and crisis...
Characterization and wit set an audience apart from the players; it can afford to look at the players objectively, since their idyosyncrasies are to be laughed at, not pitied, and their conscious humor to be enjoyed. For the audience, there is no possible emotional involvement with Maugham characters; they are on display only. Thus, when Maugham introduces a sentimental romance between TB victims in "Sanatorium," the audience is uncomfortable, as all along it has been concerned with characters and not with tormented souls. An audience must be in a sentimental mood before tears can be shed...
...admirers who think him a social commentator and by those who rave about his humor. "My strongest feeling about anything is disparity-in materials or shapes or sizes. I may think a thing is amusing but I'm likely to be absolutely serious about it." With a self-conscious giggle he is apt to add, "I don't giggle...
...reports, which it gets through the ears and by bone conduction, upon the pronunciation of each syllable. As each report arrives, the brain tells the vocal apparatus to go ahead and speak the next syllable. The whole thing happens so rapidly and smoothly that the speaker is rarely conscious...