Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London staffs, were called on to contribute to the story. They interviewed hundreds of people-sociologists, psychologists, historians, educators, clergymen, judges, law-enforcement officers, physicians, grandparents, parents and teenagers. They found almost everyone -from the most knowing experts to sometimes bewildered parents-interested in discussing the subject and conscious, in one way or another, of the trend. The correspondents' reports, plus a wealth of existing research, provided an imposing collection of material for the story. The researcher in charge is a mother, the writer a father, and the editor a grandfather. Their greatest task, they felt, was extracting general...
...chest proves to be empty. After a bitter, final attempt at finding the little girl buried in Mumbo's hulk, Dicey falls ill. When the Maltese discovers her, she is mysteriously bruised and barely conscious, muttering: "It's all gone, was it ever there? No, never there...
...think the execution of the law upon an offender is something beautiful and moving") who will not be bilked of his prey. The brother, drawing off pursuit, crashes his car and gets disfigured by fire; the prosecutor, not seeing the difference, prepares to shoot the charred victim ("He's conscious, isn't he? That's all the law requires."). Mean-while McKenna, his faith restored by his brother's intended sacrifice, races to the prison to prevent it. A pretty strong stomach is needed to sit through the "ceremony" and sermonizing that end the film...
...teleologic' I mean: the subjective-to-objective, intermittent, only-spontaneous, borderline-conscious, and within-self communicating system that distills equatable principles-characterizing relative behavior patterns-from our pluralities of matching experiences: and reintegrates selections from those...
...unbending patriarch of Baltimore, and acutely conscious of the dignity and the responsibilities of venerable old age. Like a wise old uncle exercising his seniority, it tells Baltimoreans what to do, and Baltimoreans apparently listen. Faced with a perplexing maze of 20 municipal bond issues in a 1962 election, most voters clipped a Sun editorial, took it to the polls, and followed the paper's recommendations to the letter. The Sun demands a high order of intelligence from its readers. Stories are written not to entertain but to inform; text is never displaced for purely cosmetic considerations...