Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barrington Moore Jr. has long been conscious of this tendency (Bloom cites one of Moore's attacks on modern social science but never develops its relation to Social Origins.) Moore's book is an explicit denial that industrialism, modernization, is governed by one set of "rules." He demonstrates that parliamentary democracy, fascism, Chinese and Russian communism all result from different and largely fortuitous combinations of lords, peasants and bourgeoisie. Democracy is no more an inevitable result of industrialism than totalitarianism. Every society, parliamentary democracy included, involves an exploitation of the lower classes. The book is an injunction to examine...
...weeks ago by promising to increase the salaries of policemen and firemen without raising taxes. The money, she said, would come from Washington. White pointed out that the pay raise would add $26 per $1,000 of assessed value to the tax rate, and thereby captured votes in tax-conscious Irish neighborhoods that had previously gone overwhelmingly for Mrs. Hicks...
...school ties (Harrow, Oxford's Trinity College), Allen is a steam-railway buff who has written six books (Narrow Gauge Railways of Europe, Steam on the Sierra) on the subject. A former head of I.C.I.'s plastics division and Canadian operations, he is also a cost-conscious businessman who is quick to criticize corporations for "gathering information that is not needed, collecting useless statistics and disseminating unimportant knowledge...
...total retreat from the world, that enchanting idyll of no known past. But here and there disengagements from some present undertakings should not a priori be foreclosed. On the other hand, reconsiderations may issue in more strenuous efforts at openness, particularly in the policy sciences and their research centers. Conscious receptivity to destructive criticism of conventionally accepted limits n policy can after all well be defended on both intellectual and pragmatic grounds...
...Harvard is not self-conscious enough to realize its complicity with the war effort. It ignores the extent to which it is involved all the time...