Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lost. It was an unhappy choice. Unlike their Chinese counterparts, Tanzania's style-conscious girls are staging a vigorous cultural counterrevolution. At the University of Dar es Salaam, a group of youths paraded placards declaring "Minis for Decadent Europe." In retaliation, coeds donned their shortest minis and routed the green guards with a chant of "Get lost." Girls at a youth hostel unanimously voted that "men should not decide what women will wear." One secretary defended her mini, explaining that it made it easier for her to move around the office and push through a crowded bus. A women...
Cultural traditions die hard in history-conscious China. But they do die, as devotees of the highly stylized form of music drama called Peking opera are beginning to learn. The death is especially painful when the executioner is China's cultural queen, Chiang Ching, the wife of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...1930s, social protest was second nature to the politically conscious artist. In the 1960s, instead of editorializing in melodramatic imagery, the artist is apt to employ the more oblique weapons of abstract parody and wit. His sentiments are no less angry on that account-as could be seen last week in Chicago. At the Feigen Gallery, 47 artists displayed acid valentines to Mayor Richard J. Daley, 21 of them composed especially for the show...
...thought the endorsement would not influence many McCarthy backers to vote for Humphrey. "Everyone has made up his mind already," one student said, "and I don't think this will change anything." Another student said he thought that McCarthy made the endorsement so late in the campaign with the conscious intention of diluting its effect...
...sophomores," he adds, "we were all conscious of our own individual performances, but now we're team-conscious; we still push each other, but everybody is interested in the success of the team...