Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What manner of woman ignored the provincialism of the 1890's and went to college? Certainly not the timid, nor the average, nor the society conscious, nor the unambitious. Yet Gertrude, even among her brilliant and determined classmates, was somehow different. Later, when she wrote at great length about her life, she always skimmed over the Radcliffe period. "I knew the flexible Mass Stein for twenty years," says Miss Alice Roullier, a former art dealer. "She never mentioned her college days...
...first duty of everyone is to become acutely conscious of the seriousness of the moral evil that unemployment constitutes for workers' homes. Moral evil, we say, and not a simple economic fact as alleged by certain economists' theories, which would not hesitate to propose it as a useful and even charitable solution in certain circumstances to facilitate recovery...
Ceramics, one of mankind's first arts, is having a renaissance after a century-long decline. Begun when a handful of ceramists retreated to their studios in self-conscious revolt against the standardization of machine-tooled objects, the renaissance is now in full swing from Manhattan's Greenwich Village to London's Chelsea, with thousands of potters pumping their wheels and smudging their smocks as they "throw" the wet spinning clay. One of the most indefatigable sponsors of the revival is Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Director Anna Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows...
...past three years has broadcast from Moscow for NBC. got the idea for his volume from a weekly radio program in which he answered questions sent in by U.S. listeners. (Sample: Are there chiropractors in the U.S.S.R.? Answer: No, but chiropractic techniques are used.) Like a less history-conscious Gunther. Author Levine ranges over the surface of Soviet life, from shops to prisons, from tractor stations to "stereokino." The book is larded with anecdotes and jokes (see box), which illustrate the Soviet mood...
...superiors was deliberately perverted by the Tokugawa Shogunate (which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868) to maintain a rigid caste system. Obedience is still drummed into modern Japanese youth. But, says Dr. Takeyama: "While it remains a basic influence in their unconscious makeup, it conflicts sharply with their conscious striving to behave in accordance with modern Western ways...