Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mikhail Lermontov, a literary contemporary of Pushkin who was much affected by Pushkin's life, his work, and particularly by the circumstances of the duel in which Pushkin is killed. The action of the play moves back and forth from Lermontov's own life and his more-or-less conscious attempts at emulating Pushkin to the life of Gregory Pechorin, Lermontov's idealized self and the protagonist of his novel, which bears the same title as the play...
...they trooped back across the Charles to the houses, there was the appealing prospect of a weekend of rest to remedy onrushing exhaustion. Psychologist Jerome Bruner evoked the mood. "None of us is blameless and none of us has the whole good," he said. "We're much more conscious of things we believed were peripheral but are not peripheral. People have taken possession of themselves. It is a time to be inventive...
...desires. Researchers in the growing science of sleep-watching suspect that their mysterious function is much broader than that. The latest findings, as presented to the annual meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep, are beginning to confirm the link, hitherto experimentally unproved, between dreams and conscious functioning. In dreaming, the experts now surmise, the healthy mind brings its emotional experience to bear on the stresses of the day and forges new mental mechanisms for dealing with them when they recur...
...strike. Of the six thousand people voting at Soldiers' Field, an overwhelming majority voted to demand that Harvard stop dealing with ROTC. The same majority demanded a meaningful back studies program at Harvard, a restructuring of the decision-making process within the University, and a set of socially conscious policies toward the local community outside of Harvard...
...production is to be criticized in any way, it is that it does not completely realize its very great potential. As it stands, however, it is excellent. It is a find and frightening thing to achieve communication of that space between the conscious and the subconscious. This is the realm of uncertainty which is offered in much of its lonely awfulness by the admirable show...