Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Academy of Television Arts and Sciences trundled a star-heavy cargo of TV folk into the nation's living rooms last week for its ninth annual paean to itself. Traditionally, the Emmy ceremony has been little more than a gigantic promotion stunt disguised as a spectacular, with self-conscious emphasis on quantity over quality; this year the awards committees pared the categories down from last year's 41 to 29. Still there was a striking imbalance. Caesar's Hour, which may be dropped by NBC at season's end, won five of the awards. Free-lancing...
...professors would point their curriculum so as to culminate in two or three weeks of either intensive, high-level study of extant course material or individual study of new material related to the course, Reading Period might in fact do its hypothetical duty. They would have to be conscious of another unpleasantry in human nature, of course, and verify their students' diligence either on the final exam or by other means. Students would have to cooperate to the extent of aiming at something besides a good mark in the course, which admittedly, is asking a good deal. If Reading Period...
Krishnamurti overlooks the possibilities of possibility, the value of the future, man's concern for and with others, human development within the context of such extensions as politics, crowds, newspapers, and worry ("care"). Always, the greatest things come out of crisis and struggle. Realization and self-consciousness do not arise from comfort, from the present, from tranquility. The man who is frightened by himself, afraid to face his loneliness and his own self, flees to the consoling arms of tranquility and the tangibles of the present. But the seekers of the self--the self-conscious--grasp the future, appropriate their...
...first place, I don't think that a reviewer can open his mouth without having first passed hundreds of judgements, conscious or unconscious. In the second place, I woudn't want to see reviewing limited to objective reporting, even if it could...
When the infant's head emerges, the fully conscious mother demands to know whether she has a boy or a girl. "I can't tell," the doctor replies. "That part isn't out yet." Moments later, the shrill wail of young David Usill rises above the murmur of the bedside sounds. "Oh, doctor," breathes the mother, "that's beautiful...