Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objectivity, though, goes just so far. We can hold a casual conversation about Kennedy for only a few minutes before the offhandedness becomes forced and the objectivity fades into an inarticulate and self-conscious reserve...
Admittedly, the very fact that adventure nowadays has to be searched out can make the whole thing self-conscious and artificial. When the lights went out along the East Coast last week, city dwellers were almost pathetically glad to be released from their routine and from their machines, finding adventure of sorts in the simple business of walking down stairs or directing traffic in darkened streets. Adventurers are driven to figure out ever new, ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling...
...very conscious of the Faculty's decision to have some kind of junior tutorial," he added. "We would make provision for juniors who had already taken the course." The present sophomore tutorial, he said, would still be kept open for those who did not make an early decision to concentrate in economics...
...Divinity School unrest about "sterile, Sunday-morning Christianity" simmered until the civil rights issue exploded in the mid-1930's. "That gave us a chance to speak out, a chance to show people we were interested." Pope John's support of ecumenism also helped shape a brand of world-conscious religion that has not been seen in America since the abolitionist movement of the 1850's, Cox explains...
...world-conscious religion, as practiced by the Divinity School, has prompted major revisions in the school's Field Work Program, part of the core curriculum. The program originally was an attempt to teach the practical side of the parochial ministry by giving students apprenticeships in local churches. "But we decided in 1961 that it is just as important to train good theologians as it is to train good ministers," Tjord G. Hommes, the program's director, says...