Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come into focus, both for the overall design of the military apparatus and the internal operations of the Pentagon, a number of contrasts with the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations are becoming evident. Some represent reactions to changing conditions or the culmination of trends begun years ago. Others are conscious departures...
...every last trace of trail was obliterated. The drivers were forced to slash their way down a seemingly impenetrable slope of mountain. As much as anything, the race was designed to test the vehicle's mettle. Said Dick Advey, director of Action Age Inc.: "Americans are so performance-conscious that it would be impossible to have any kind of vehicle in this country and not have it raced. That is what snowmobiles had to do, and these new vehicles can do so much more that racing is a natural showcase...
...Greene's view, conditions do not improve as man grows up. As the most famous of the trio of British literary converts (the others: Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark), Greene is a Catholic of Augustinian severity, more conscious of evil than of grace. "Human nature," he asserts, here as in his novels, "is not black and white but black and grey...
...twentieth century it is impossible for an artist to indulge himself with simple forms and simple melodies without feeling conscious of dangers of affectation or caricature...
...even with the provision that they must accept any available work or vocational-training opportunity. There was a good deal of tugging and hauling over the welfare proposals, mainly pitting two relatively liberal Nixon men, HEW Secretary Robert Finch and Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan, against budget-conscious Economist Arthur Burns and other Cabinet-level conservatives...