Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KTBC's far-flung service earned the widest applause. "We are not normally a blood-and-guts operation," Spelce hastened to explain afterwards. "This is a state government, state university-conscious town. It was the first time in years we have shown a closeup of a dead body." But, he also said, "this was a highly unusual...
What might make middle age pleasantest of all is a reform that middle-agers could institute themselves. Middle-agers need prestige as well as power within U.S. society. They need to have their age role approved by those around them rather than feel defensive and self-conscious about it. What militates against this is the Youth Cult...
...reluctant to cut that much life out of his life. Besides, time sometimes taunts the older lover with the crudest of jests. Having roused the ardor of a younger woman, he may find himself no match for her physical demands and end up more ruefully conscious of his age than when he set out to refute...
Literature was conscious of no loss when Britain's Denton Welch died in 1948 at the age of 33. A gaunt, gifted art student, he had been invalided at 20 when a motorist crashed into his bicycle, fracturing his spine. Often unable to paint, scarcely able to walk, he took up his pen and wrote two books of stories, two fictionalized autobiographies of boyhood, a lengthy journal and this brilliant, terrible novel. Published in England in 1950, it received scant attention; but critics have recently recognized Welch's memoir as a minor masterpiece, and it has now been...
...This seven movement work is the sort of piece that helped get under way the esthetic tradition that produced the Albert and Victoria monstrosities. To be played without any break between the section, it has a tremendous capacity for becoming a longwinded, disorganized barrage of pomposity, sentimentality, and self-conscious melodrama. For the first four movements there was a sense of heaviness, as if the music could not build up any motive force of its own and got from one measure to the next only through the brute force of the players...