Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elizabeth Taylor, on the other hand, always manages to look sultry, alluring, and so conscious of her beauty that she almost makes you believe it's really there. She drags Faustus into hell, showing her true colors at last: bright red lips, those two even rows of pearly teeth, and skin the color of a sour green apple...
...acquaintance, or even a friend, few can cozy up to Hans Werner Henze's heroes and heroines. In The Young Lord, the hero turns out to be an extremely well-trained monkey, and the moral of the tale seems to be that the modern world is so fad-conscious that people will imitate practically anyone with a social passport, even if he is an ape in disguise. It might sound like comedy, but the work is filled with bitter misery. Henze has said: "This music fashions, out of itself, its own new dwellings from which it will emerge...
...holding the Torah. Next to me stands the bullfighter with drawn sword. There is a woman dressed in white in front of a bird bath in which there is a severed human head. The meaning is that the archaic and the contemporary coexist in religious ritual, as do the conscious and the unconscious. Thus the bullfighter has slain a human victim. This is Koerner's way of saying that the bullfight is really a surrogate for a much more primitive sacrifice. The woman in white is both a modern Pittsburgh housewife and the old cannibal mother goddess...
...Lichtheim, to paraphrase Brecht, would have to sweat to get the common people into his book and he doesn't take the trouble. So history becomes the battle of great thinkers, each a bit self-conscious in this un-Hegelian day and age, looking over his shoulder now and again to see if the rude folk are in fact trailing along behind...
Along with this, students have, as Pusey notes, become more socially conscious. They use their knowledge and position to help people before they get out of the monastery. If Kennan thinks students should not involve themselves in the world, he is the real Walter Mitty. The fact is that they are forced to involve themselves...