Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when you are done reading, the new Advocate is not so bad as its individual parts. It is, after all, free from many of the self-conscious stupidities and exhibitionisms which characterize collegiate prose, and it has the great virtue of few such efforts--it includes only the work of those seriously concerned with their art and their subject...
...meticulously drawn portrait shows Lady Dalkeith robed in pink, with matching nail polish, even has slivers of tin foil glittering among her painted diamonds. The academicians think that it illustrates their goal of acting "as a steadying influence on the haste or extravagancy of innovators"-i.e., the pattern-conscious "kitchen sink" school of art. Lord Attlee found Merton's painting "awfully jolly," but art critics disdained it as mere "craftsmanship." Flooded with commissions, Merton rejoined: "I only paint beautiful women, children and angels...
...losing, however, they had solace. If the bill's final draft clears the Ways and Means Committee on schedule this week, it will face heavy opposition on the House floor. And in the Senate there will be the Finance Committee, where presides sharp-eyed, penny-conscious Democrat Harry Flood Byrd, a man with plenty of power and a longstanding aversion to pies...
Smith: Maybe it is. But the fact is that the more buying of a lot of goods has not made people happy. It has not given them the psychic lift that so much advertising promised. I am not saying that people are on a conscious buyers' strike. I simply suggest that they are disenchanted with all the goodies on the American market, and are resisting. The field of home and women's products is a good example. Don't you think the housewife gets tired of being told that this shampoo or that detergent will hold...
Satirist Grenfell gathers material for her all-too-humans from observation: "But I'm really not conscious of observing people any more. I think I did it all years ago and just stored up. My characters are all composites. I never set out to be beastly. There's a little bit of me in all of my characterizations...