Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a small, patient elephant, he stood there as they watched him, conscious of being the center of a crowded, shoulder-packed stare. He was short, squat, had on a brown, well-cut suit, two Red orders on the handkerchief pocket, and he held a glass of what appeared to be grapefruit juice. Now and then he would whisper conspiratorially to Bulganin or laugh over his shoulder to Mikoyan or talk with proper gravity to the beaming Egyptian War Minister. I elbowed my way in like a diplomat and began working with two cameras strung around my neck. Good-humoredly...
Ford's "Cellini of chrome" might better be called the Elvis Presley of the automotive industry. His conception of what the buying public wants is insulting, especially to us women. Certainly we are conscious of style, but within the bounds of good taste and good value. Mr. George Walker's hillbilly notions do not meet these requirements; there is altogether too much emphasis on style and too little on quality and performance. We want to drive the 1958 models, not wear them...
...feature of the week's elections was that (except in segregation-conscious Virginia) there were no solid issues. The campaigns generally were fought and won on the basis of personality. One additional worry for the G.O.P. next year: it is shy on good, attractive candidates...
...much benevolent prosperity. Where Rauschenbusch preached the need for social organization, his successors deplore Organization Man. It is not so much that the Social Gospel is dead, but that it has been assimilated. The light Rauschenbusch lit half a century ago still burns in the activist, cause-conscious heart of U.S. Protestantism...
...draw a crowd on the basis of showing this as a sex film, the management would do the audience a great favor by extracting the sex scenes and showing the ten minutes of "dirty pictures," thus sparing the audience the remaining hour and twenty minutes of uncomfortable boredom. The conscious eroticism of the love-making is the only faintly stirring thing in the film...