Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the house-don't be a sucker-be the house." As in his other books (The Nice American, The Center of the Stage), Novelist Sykes cleaves right to the secret core of his characters-ex-Communist literary snobs, envenomed small-town society queens, Point Four evangelists, coronary-conscious manufacturers. But this time he has also hacked a plot from political headlines, and so blunted his aptest insights...
...friends of mine gladly sent $100 apiece to the Cheshire fund. . . None felt he was violating any rule, or he wouldn't have done it. Some were Yale men, some were not--They simply gave with no questions asked. I made no secret of the fact since I was conscious of no wrong...
...struggle toward an independent, qualified judiciary (in the Magna Carta, King John covenanted that "we will appoint as justices . . . only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well"). The men who shaped the governments of the U.S. and its states were acutely conscious of the importance of a judiciary free to act without fear or favor toward the executive and legislative branches. In the post-revolutionary period nearly all judges-state as well as federal-were named by appointment and got life tenure "during good behavior...
...fired with consuming zeal to mete out justice according to law to every man, woman and child that may come before them and to preserve individual freedom against any aggression of government; judges with the humility born of wisdom, patient and untiring in the search for truth, and keenly conscious of the evils arising in a workaday world from any unnecessary delay-judges with all these attributes are not easy to find, but which of these traits dare we eliminate if we are to hope to attain evenhanded justice...
...like a decayed tooth, in the rationalistic way, then the patient would have gained nothing and lost something very important, much as a thinker who loses his doubt of the truth of his conclusions, or a moral man who loses his temptations . . . The individual [must] choose his own way consciously and with conscious moral decision...