Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Part I suddenly dropped out of sight. Moreover, the libretto was narrative rather than dramatic, required whole passages of flat prose to be set to music, with the result that long stretches of the score were labored and discursive. In the war scenes, the opera stiffened with self-conscious patriotism, which Prokofiev illustrated with military airs that occasionally verged on the banal. But overall, War and Peace was a notable achievement. Whatever it lacked in sustained dramatic effect it made up in color, movement, and the driving force of lyric melody and great choral frescoes...
Jordan expressed concern over students' increasing tendency to avoid the Natural Sciences as a area of concentration, despite a conscious effort by the admissions office to raise the average mathematical aptitude of the student body. Nearly 90 percent of Radcliffe undergraduates major in the Social Sciences and Humanities, with almost half the students concentrating in the three departments of English, History, and History and Literature...
...longest-touted and best-advertised problem facing the 85th Congress was a promised drive in the Senate for civil-rights legislation. Well aware that the Democrats had lost large chunks of their usual big-city vote in civil-rights-conscious areas in the November election, both Democrats and Republicans from the North and the West were ready to combine politics with principle by finding a way to change the Senate's famed Rule XXII and its built-in right of filibuster. Not only did they have the Southern conservative Democrats to contend with; some conservative Republicans and Northern Democrats...
Fortunately, self-conscious passages such as these are as rare as caviar on the MLR. The humbler truth contained in both The Last Parallel and Give Us This Day is that America is blessed in her fighting men. Of them, as of the fallen Athenians whom Pericles mourned more than 2,000 years before, it might well be said that "esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, [they did] not weigh too nicely the perils...
Bulletin. In Wichita, Kans., after twelve months of only scattered rains, drought-conscious U.S. Weather Bureau Meteorologist Fred Wells looked out the window, teletyped: "NOW HEAR THIS...