Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continues, the careful, self-conscious diction breaks down, the sidewalk elisions appear. "Either we were gonna get the confidence of the people or perish. I'd been in the business a long time. It was the only one I knew. I figured I'm in so deep I gotta...
...Summer Conferences. At such places there is usually a Cathedral of the Pines, in which worshipers are directed to meditate upon the beauty and straightness of trees rather than upon the Creator of the trees. At such places there is always an Inspiration Point . . . You will be particularly conscious of this if you come to it right after hearing an 'inspirational address' by a 'denominational leader...
Field can afford to grow. The money-losing paper that he took over in 1950 is now solidly in the black. Unlike his father, who seldom counted the financial cost in backing a project, young Marshall Field Jr. takes after his cost-conscious, merchant-prince grandfather. Though daily circulation slipped (now 556,885), he boosted ads and cut costs by putting every department on a dollar-watching financial footing. Field himself works hard, and he expects every other Sun-Timesman to follow suit. Says one of his top executives: "He's a tough little guy to work...
...this exposé tripe." Instead of suing, Columnist Robb said, Doris Duke should have organized "an old-fashioned vigilante party and horsewhipped the shabby crew responsible for this verbal assault. A cat-o'-nine-tails speaks a powerful language that might even penetrate the elephant hide and conscious of these lice...
Actress Winters is better than competent as the mother, and Actor Mitchum is more credible as a murderer than as a Bible-spouting phony. As a whole, Director Laughton's Night is a self-conscious experiment in production, filled with stylized lighting and acting, off-beat music and tricky camera angles...