Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wagner's men were there all right-and they were so conscious of the possibility that they might be accused of riot-incited brutality that they maintained a general attitude of scrupulous courtesy-at times almost to the point of being ineffectual. In the daylight hours following the first upheaval, officers rubbed their shotguns and watched placidly while leisurely looters emptied the shelves of riot-smashed stores. When one tearful shopkeeper begged the cops to stop the thieves from walking away with his livelihood, they shrugged and repeated what Chief Wagner himself had told reporters...
...much more. To Europe, they brought $46 billion in aid, food and clothes and massive Marshall Plan reconstruction loans. The presence of hundreds of thousands of obviously prosperous, obviously confident American soldiers in Germany alone unconsciously created an image that was far more lasting and effective than the conscious efforts of the Nazi re-education process. Since the war, of course, wave upon wave of American tourists and students have further entrenched American attitudes and products in Europe, though in the doing they have sometimes marred the American image. And almost everywhere there have been U.S. businessmen eager to cash...
...theme and method of the movement"-in other words, that Negroes isolate themselves and seize power wherever they can. In a confidential memorandum distributed only to selected delegates, CORE also attacked American foreign policy, particularly the war in Viet Nam: "To support a war such as this, filled with conscious racism, is to support the racism on which it feeds. To support a war such as this is to support the use of black taxpayers' money to destroy and subjugate other colored folks...
...should some jerk they dragged in off the street have the right to push a button and say whether or not I should play in the series?" Veteran Producer Herbert (The Defenders) Brodkin wonders: "How you would enjoy a Broadway show if at every moment you were conscious of having to push a button or turn a dial...
...Arabs rides to the rescue by horse and hydrofoil, Modesty unreels a few reasonably sturdy gags in the midst of its chichi nonsense. The zaniest occurs early on when Bogarde's henchmen torture Monica with a piece of mobile sculpture. In a movie so given to self-conscious giggles, even the fine art of manhandling takes a peculiar turn...