Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party on Trial. But the trial had got out of hand as accused and witnesses, conscious of their wide audience, poured out evidence of the people's hatred of their Communism. Typical was the testimony last week of a witness who told how, on the fateful day of the workers' riots, he had heard shouts of "Away with the dictatorship" and "Away with the occupation," and had seen people destroying court records, judges' robes and golden chains of legal office. "Why is there so little respect for justice in our country?" this witness asked...
Because we believe Adlai Stevenson will provide the conscious world leadership called for by these troubled times, we endorse him for the Presidency...
...reshuffling of party loyalties." In many cases, he found, the economic hostilities of the Depression and the New Deal era, which made the Democrats the "normal majority" party, have been blurred over by prosperity. Moreover, he reported, the "spectacular expansion" of the middle class has given more voters a conscious stake in what they call "the party that's good for business...
...Cold Grey Dawn." Wolfe lived his few years as fully as a man can. A physical giant, he was always conscious of being "six-foot-six in a world of five-foot-eight." He loved to drink, to argue the strange vexed state of man "until the cold grey dawn and the last milk wagon have gone by," to prowl the nighttime streets alone, reveling in his aloneness. He quarreled with everyone, then endlessly apologized, and no friendship was safe from his eternal analysis. Maxwell Perkins, Wolfe's editor at Scribner's, once pleaded long before their final...
...letters are packed with humor, both conscious and unconscious. For a girl from New Orleans, Wolfe wrote a delightfully bawdy poem called A.D.-2024, and, flying up the Rhone Valley, he looked down from a height of 3,000 ft. and saw "a little moving dot in one of the fields shoveling manure: it looked so much like a critic that I have not wanted to finish my letter since." High comedy results from Wolfe's continual difficulties with he friends and relatives who considered hat he had behaved abominably in puting them in his books. After the publication...