Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trends of the past century have had their gestation in the Square. You have to love Harvard to like this book. It strings together 150 selections from the Advocate's first hundred years, most of which lead you to believe that undergraduate writers are either inept thieves or self-conscious bores. Editor Jonathan Culler has attempted to justify each inclusion by fitting it into the Advocate's labored, changing definition of itself or by showing that the piece demonstrates the impact of belles-lettres on Harvard. Only the real chauvinist, the Harvard grad who moved only as far away...
Bonnets, silk hats, and conscious graces...
...maneuvering--Bobby to the left, Hubert to the right. Kennedy can keep making more and more liberal statements and never risk his standing with basically conservative big-city Roman Catholic voters that form the bedrock of his support. Humphrey, on the other hand, can lose the temperamental self-conscious liberal vote all too easily. There is evidence--boos at the California Democratic Council convention, for instance--that this group is already slipping away from...
Larry Seidman is even less like Burt Ross, as a leader, than Pete Weiner was. He is an idealist; he shuns the word because it is a political handicap, and so is a self-conscious idealist, but he is an idealist nonetheless. If Young Dems is ever to make a place for itself in Harvard student politics, the club must first, he maintains, define exactly what it is both to itself and to the rest of the college. That is what the club has failed to do in the past, and that, at least, is what Seidman hopes...
...Conscious of others' education and their use of it, Sanford worries "that some of our best educated people, the medical profession for example, could have no concern for the common good." Though he sees no essential difference in the goals of public and private education, he tends to view private institutions as sometimes "too inbred, too self-satisfied...