Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither reaction, I think, is quite correct. As a considerate thinker, Wilson is quite conscious of the extremity of this position as stated. But he does not desire or expect a reaction of disgust from anyone interested in reading his essay in the first place; the dogmatic force of his statement creates resistance in the reader, who, in examining the idea for its real weaknesses, comes more fully to understand understand the author's meaning...
Wilson cannot imagine that some of his remarks will be swallowed easily. In his essay on sex, after propounding the wisdom of selective breeding through artificial insemination, he closes: "Do not say that you turn in distaste from a selection so calculated and conscious, which does not depend on 'the heart.' In how many marriages and liasons in the society we actually inhabit does no calculation enter or the heart play a cardinal role?" This is necessarily repugnant to those of young enthusiasms--perhaps of healthy emotional enthusiasms. But Wilson does not demand that it be eaten; he asks only...
Ezra Taft Benson, 57, Secretary of Agriculture, is still hard at the politically hazardous job of convincing the less prosperous but vote-conscious U.S. farmers that they and the economy will be better off in the long run without large agricultural subsidies. But if Benson has stuck to principle, he has also learned to bend with the political winds. He fought for passage of the 1954 farm law that substituted semiflexible price supports for the Democrats' rigid supports, but agreed to limit the range of flexibility so that actual supports did not drop much. He once considered the soil...
Fellow-Poet Robert Graves can only worship before eternal woman, "The Goddess" of whom he often writes. But a visionary woman like Poet Raine, conscious of her mortality, can herself become the Goddess when she declaims...
...Rock Island's Jenks is no dreamer. As a research-conscious vice president, who moved up to the presidency last year, he installed electronic gadgets in freight yards to check and sort cars faster, was the first to use lightweight, economical (seat cost: $2,300 v. $3,800 for standard cars) "Jet Rocket" trains, which are equipped with radio communications so that trainmen no longer had to drop notes to station masters from speeding trains. Jenks has even put to work the U.S. Army's sniperscope, which uses infrared rays to see through darkness; a modified version keeps...