Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of domestic affairs. One result is that he plays little part in the early stages of formulating policy. Example: the Interior Department has almost completed an antirecession public-works plan that will cost about $80 million. This would mean a major reversal of last year's budget-conscious policies. The plan will soon hit the President's desk, and he will make the final decision. But he has not participated in any of the earlier discussions, and there is even some doubt that he is aware of the proposal's existence...
...average householder who sweated out 50 dreary minutes in fear that gangland killers would learn of his presence at one of their crimes. The show was just another dipperful of clabber out of Kraft Theater's antique churn. Berle played the shallowly written role with egregious self-control. Conscious of his dignity as a TV elder statesman, he liked the part because it was, said he proudly, "something unbrash, unflippant and unaggressive-I wanted to get away from the Berle trademarks...
Negro singers are still rare enough in grand opera to be news to the public and to make managers self-conscious about what roles to give them. Two possible answers: Carmen, the gypsy girl, and Aïda, the Ethiopian slave. But they are also taxing debut parts, both vocally and dramatically. Last week, on opera stages 4.000 miles apart, two of the most promising of the U.S.'s young Negro singers appeared in Carmen and Aïda to audience cheers...
Even the dealers who rent coronets and pseudoermine capes will benefit from an increased and more fashion-conscious clientele. The only potential danger involved is that the Queen someday might decide to pack the upper chamber with peeresses to swing votes vital to her sex. But this threat seems negligible, and the first action the sovereign might take is to appoint Princess Margaret Lady Chancellor...
...Senate Veteran (21 years) Allen J. Ellender. Best guess was that Morrison would try for the governorship, not only because Ellender would be a hard political nut to crack but also because Earl Long drubbed the mayor badly in the 1956 race for governor. To proud and progress-conscious Chep Morrison, the defeat still rankles...