Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police charged that Bachelor Weinstein, 29, was in the habit of striking up friendships with students, then drugging them and, while they were barely conscious, torturing and assaulting them homosexually...
...world have had their effect on Russia's citizens, but the Communists have succeeded neither in expunging nor in radically shifting their deep human character traits. The Communist regime has obviously convinced most Russians of the virtues of social ism and persuaded them to take a class-conscious view of history. By its achievement, it seems to have given them more self-esteem and pride in their country than the mass of Russians have ever had before. Gone is the obsequious muzhik whose manners were formed by centuries of serfdom. No longer pervasive is the type that Lenin belittled...
...Best Cut. Today the House of Lords has a membership of 1,045, twice the number in 1911. Its hereditary peers number 865. Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit as lords spiritual, and 154 life peers have been created under the 1958 act. In a title-conscious country, the Lords enjoy high prestige. Their most important perquisite is the right to sit in the elaborately Gothic House of Lords, where everything from special parking spaces out front to toilets marked "Peers" smacks of privilege. And, as Anthony Sampson notes in his Anatomy of Britain Today: "A Lord...
...thoughtful pieces on foreign policy, Royster shows the same sense of measure. He cautions the U.S. to steer a course somewhere between despair and euphoria, to know its limits yet act decisively within them, to be conscious of the gradations of evil in the world without feeling compelled to try to eradicate them all. "A blind faith in total victory," he writes, "can be fatal because it assumes that evil exists in the world only by sufferance, that all it takes to destroy it is godlike power...
Tschaikovsky's Symphonie "Pathetique" is something else. This is one of those pieces that an image-conscious musician will only listen to when he is sure no one else is looking. But there it was, blasting away in amply filled Sanders Theatre, and there we all were, guiltily and depravedly enjoying...