Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate could hardly have been more serene. Debate on the natural-gas bill (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.) was nearing an end, the opposition was wheezing its last, the votes to pass the bill seemed well in hand. When South Dakota's comma-conscious Republican Senator Francis Case rose to speak, it was the signal for other Senators to burrow deeper into their newspapers or strike up desultory conversation with their neighbors. But by the time Francis Case sat down, he had shaken the Senate to its foundations...
Rough Time. Basically the positions of Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver on the discrimination issue were not far apart. The fact that Kefauver's direct and politically conscious way of stating his case was more effective only proved a larger point. The basic division on segregation between the Democratic Deep South and the liberal Democratic North (critically dependent on the Negro vote in key states) is now out in the open; there are rough times ahead for the man who would be moderate with both sides...
James R. Killian, President of M.I.T., stated after the discovery that "excesses associated with hazings would be eliminated." He added that the fraternity mates of Thomas L. Clark, the drowned boy, were "completely innocent of any conscious negligence." They were victims of "long practiced traditions and procedures which it is now clear cannot be condoned in this institution or in any other dormitories or fraternities...
Allegro believes that the sect was conscious of a sense of nervous excitement when "outrage succeeded outrage, blasphemy and idolatry sat insolently in high places, and even the high priest of Israel defiled the sanctity of God with his presence." The Essenes, he asserted, looked forward to a blessed release and the return of its priestly "Teacher of Righteousness...
Like any satirist, Author Schneider also considers himself a moralist. Yet his moral is perhaps the worst thing about the book. The old machine boss grew out of the necessities of ward politics and immigrant life, just as the new TV-conscious politician is shaped by the realities of mass education and mass sophistication. Both types can be corrupt, but the most corrupt thing in politics remains the destructive, naively cynical idea that all politicians are crooks-or admen...