Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught the attention of President Kennedy. In his new book, Author Harrington abandons sociological reportage and essays a sweeping analysis of 20th century culture in crisis. His theses are all too familiar. Proliferating technology has transformed Western civilization: "The chasm between technological capacity and economic, political, social, and religious consciousness has unsettled every faith and creed in the West." Economic collectivization is inevitable. But it has begun in America without conscious planning, and the power of economic decision now rests with bureaucratic corporations rather than with the democratic mass most profoundly affected. Slogging his way toward these conclusions, Author Harrington...
Infant Application. The only easy way to gain entrance to most of these schools is by birth, although even admission by legacy is no longer automatic. Buckley, perhaps the most society-conscious of the city's schools for boys, encourages parents to apply when their children are born, and most of the top schools book their classes far in advance on a first-come, first-considered basis. Even acquiring an application form is competitive; Allen-Stevenson, which graduates only a dozen boys a year, does not send a blank unless it gets satisfactory telephoned answers to nine questions...
...other unsavory businesses; and bought judges who sanction it all. With other specimens of the "inside" novel genre, this one has several characters whose real-life models are familiar -the rabble-rousing, white-hating black fanatic named the Prophet, the Italian rackets czar named Vito, the acquisitive, balance-sheet-conscious newspaper owner. Horan is best at sketching in the details of corruption. It is a picture so shocking that it would strain credulity-were it not for the fact that most of the scandals he telescopes into a brief winter in the mid-1960s happened, over a longer period...
Szigeti's reason for choosing the violin as his vessel is "the irrational pleasure that communication gives: communication that transcends the barriers of language, of nationality, of race." And he feels that other performers are attracted to the arduous profession for the same reason. Szigeti was made conscious of the rigors of communication because he had to translate everything from the relatively useless Hungarian of his youth. For him, the translation from written notes to sounds is entirely analogous. And it allows him to communicate with whomever he encounters en chemin...
...stenhalter-but they did alter the garment itself. Out came deeply plunging bras made of stretchable synthetics with less padding and no old-fashioned bones; lighter, flower-patterned girdles; filmy nylon slips and translucent shortie pajamas. They instantly captivated Germany's willowy, style-conscious girls-to say nothing of their husbands. The synthetic stretch materials, says Braun, "gave us an entirely fresh conception of how to engineer the human form...