Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stranger Knocks is acted intensely by Birgitte Federspiel and Preben Lerdorff Rye. The complete isolation of the two characters magnifies the tension of the developing revelation of their relationship. The film is flawed only by a few trite lines and some occasionally self-conscious camera work...
...Great Criminal. When he turned his back on business and family to become a fulltime painter, he announced the decision with a typically self-conscious flourish: "Oh, yes, I am a great criminal. What does it matter! Michelangelo was too!" He exchanged his stockbroker's black business suits for a fisherman's blue jersey and high boots, retreated to cultivate a new role-"the austere heretic," in Pissarro's words, who "pontificated and was followed by a train of young...
Next in the series is the movie version of Goldfinger, now shooting in England, for which the publicity-conscious producers have tred to obtain debutante Fernanda Wetherill of Southampton infamy. After seeing Russia, any viewer can understand why: Bond might next start wrecking houses singlehanded, and he could use a willing and experienced assistant...
Generally, non-violent strategy assumes American whites are a peculiar type of Christian, conscious of what Gunnar Myrdal called the American dilemma. Specifically, non-violent strategy assumes that man is evil but that every man is on the verge of conversion. Negroes are led to believe there is redemption in suffering. Demonstrators are told, to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King at the March on Washington, that they should "continue to work with the faith that honor in suffering is redemptive ... We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force." Further, demonstrators assume whites striking...
...Times also remains a newspaper thoroughly conscious of its stature and firmly rooted in Britain's Establishment: the government, the nobility, the ruling class. A recent survey showed that 70% of the names in Who's Who read the Times, as against only 43% for the second-ranking Daily Telegraph. "The Times is a record," said Sir William in a recent policy statement. "It has a duty not only to its readers of today but to those a century hence." And under Sir William, to resume thundering...