Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pursuing this social realism angle, Miss Clarke throws out little cliches of social criticism. Duke's mother gives a self-conscious declamation against government indifference, a busload of Harlem schoolboys is shown touring Wall Street, a college boy comes home unable to understand his junkie brother...
...Smile." Donovan has a more outgoing personality to sell such ideas than had Gross. Hissed by the city's ever-outraged pressure groups, he has remained cool. He is a persuasive, fact-conscious speaker. His tenor delivery of Galway Bay at public dinners sets Irish eyes to smiling; his show tunes at bar mitzvahs please Jewish friends. A joiner, he is an American Legionnaire, an executive board member of the National Council of Catholic Men, and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature. A sign on his desk reads...
...basically different from "the ancient Christian idea." In modern terms, he suggests, the emerging ethic could well rest upon whether sexual activity develops or inhibits the individual personality-and that judgment must always take into consideration the generally accepted social attitudes toward sex. College girls, concludes Sanford, are increasingly conscious of this "and do not have as much difficulty in restraining themselves as is generally believed...
...First the bride and her maids, the bridegroom and his companions, each in turn, jump, run, somersault and contort. Then the weeping bride takes leave of her parental home. Finally there is the wedding feast: an obliging married couple warms up the bridal bed into which the shy, self-conscious newlyweds are then tossed by the drinking, brawling guests. Through it all the four soloists and the chorus wail, lament, cry, shout. Timpani boom, cymbals clang, bells ring...
Longer hours than usual have made workers in certain industries more conscious and critical of working conditions. Continuous reports of record corporate earnings have whetted their appetites for a larger share of the profits. Higher capital spending has brought a proliferation of modern factories and equipment, which in turn has increased labor's fear of automation and caused demands for greater job security. These factors played an important role in I. W. Abel's apparent victory over David McDonald for the Steelworkers' presidency...