Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Protest Protest. In the U.S., for all the attention won (and sought) by their picket lines, petitions and protest marches, political activists on campus number at best 5% of the student bodies at such traditionally cause-conscious universities as Chicago, Columbia or California. At the majority of colleges and universities, there have been no student demonstrations against anything. At Shinier, a small (enrollment: 500) liberal arts college in Illinois, the undergraduates recently staged a rally to protest the lack of protest...
Until recently, most urban universities tended to stand aloofly apart from the cities in which they lived. But the schools' hunger for more land, the traffic and housing problems they create, have sharpened old town-gown tensions - and have also made administrators more conscious of the fact that their institutions may possess the intellectual resources to help create what Hester calls "a renaissance in urban life." University of Pennsylvania's President Gaylord P. Harnwell believes that the modern university "is not beholden to any political or economic master," and thus is "the last major institution of urban life...
Wehner was conscious that the rank-and-file of his party opposed helping their old foes out of their dilemma. Furthermore, since preference polls showed the Socialists leading the Christian Democrats by a comfortable margin, there was a strong sentiment in the party to ride out the crisis until Erhard would be forced to call new national elections; then, possibly, the Socialists could take it all. But Kiesinger was persuasive. To allow Germany to flounder indefinitely, he warned, would undermine the public's faith in the democratic system. Together, the two parties could, he promised, give German politics and prestige...
...scout's opinion, is "the best all-around college athlete in the country. In a pinch, he can even play defensive safety or cornerback." Matheson is also adaptable ("He has the ability to play tight end on offense"), and Lynch is "a real leader who is always conscious of the clock and tries to tackle the ball, not just...
...Alec Walker achieves his decay have fake written all over them. Besides, Corbaccio really looks the right age for Volpone, Volpone for Mosca, and Mosca for the young Bonario, who, as played by Jim Brook, might be a recent graduate of Miss Hewett's Nursery School for the Self-Conscious Aesthete...