Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deliberately chose it to be that way. I wanted to go into a field where I wouldn't be too self-conscious about modern literature. I didn't want to use all my energies explaining dramatic techniques rather than doing them." He switched to Anglo-Saxon thesis work after abandoning an 18th Century project. "I was supposed to edit the papers of an 18th Century Earl who was a friend of Swift and Pope. But they usually consisted of 'I dined with Mr. Pope and Dean Swift last night. I was in my usual good form.' Absolutely nothing about Swift...
...Ernest Lehman's adaptation is fine when it sticks to the original. His attempts to "successfully open up the play for the more flexible screen," as Warner Bros. proudly states, are inappropriate: Lehman's own dialogue sticks out a mile, and the exterior and roadhouse scenes are painfully self-conscious...
...used to extremes, especially by those who pretend to possess a degree of technical knowledge that they do not have. Establishing a "pretension index" based on the length of nominal compounds and their frequency of use, he discovered that in their speeches, members of Congress were even more compound-conscious than NASA engineers. A space-technology magazine was a worse offender. It printed 300% more six-word compounds than did written NASA reports...
Mark Twain was as conscious of posterity as any other writer who ever anticipated its judgment. He saved the thousands of letters that came his way and expected his correspondents to do the same (they did). Before his death at 74 in 1910, he commissioned an official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine. A large portion of Twain's estate-the fragments, stories, notes and autobiography unpublished during his lifetime-has since been paid into print by his literary executors. Yet none of it takes the full measure of the man himself...
...conviction, "solely on the ground that the trial court erred in giving a felony-murder instruction." While the record may have contained sufficient evidence to support a conviction of second-degree murder, the court was unable to tell whether the jury had actually found that Phillips acted "in conscious disregard for life," a necessary element of the crime. Reason: the prosecutor's felony-murder theory...