Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conservation-conscious Americans have been disturbed by recent disclosures in Congress indicating that a gold-and silver mining company named "Al Serena Mines" may have used fraudulent mineral assays to obtain the timbering and mineral rights on mining claims in Oregon. The suspected fraud should surprise few people, for it is no great revelation that private interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates...
...Switch to Salt. Bell Labs' war on the grey squirrel dates back to the turn of the century, when the company first became conscious of the squirrels' appetite for the lead sheath in which telephone wires are encased. After the squirrels gnaw through the sheath, linemen found, moisture gets at the paper insulation around the wires, causing a short circuit and disrupting communications. Engineers went to work to find out what it is in the lead that appeals to squirrels. According to one theory, the squirrels are suffering from a nutritional disorder caused by a lack of calcium...
...director like Kazan, who he feels has a knack for getting a great deal out of the actor. By revealing personal things about himself, Anderson explained, Kazan gets his actors to do the same--making their experience available to them for interpreting a role. As a writer very conscious of the theater, Anderson said that if an actor could express something better with a gesture he was willing to let a line go. This attitude was not hard to understand, since Anderson writes the small play and depends heavily on under the line meanings. Once a writer accepts changes...
...socially conscious '30s, when rage was all the rage, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan seemed the sort of protest against a poor slum kid's lot that dumb, brutish Studs himself might have written if he could write. But the U.S. stopped singing the hard-time blues, and time moved on, forgetting to leave James T. Farrell a forwarding address. French Girls Are Vicious, a book of short stories, is mainly steamed up about sex, or the lack of it, and might be subtitled "the pursuit of unhappiness...
...acoustics-conscious as never before since the advent of hifi, Kresge Auditorium is becoming something of a test case...