Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn of the century, European taste makers found themselves caught up in the snaky tendrils of a self-conscious style called art nouveau. Not only candlesticks and furniture, but whole buildings were designed to flow with floral grace. From the Paris Métro stations of Hector Guimard to the décor of Maxim's, symmetry was out, organic flow was in, and nothing from the insect or aquatic world was too exotic. La Belle Époque lasted little more than a couple of decades (1880-1905), but in that brief span produced a series of small masterpieces...
...normal processes of urban -continuing in-migra- Negroes to the Central city migration of whites to the -lead to much the same without conscious plan. Pettigrew said. "In some Central city is beginning of white children in its schools...
...light a kettle" or a disputed penalty at a soccer game, and the actual dramatic situation of the play. These outbursts are the logical result of the tension which arises from the interminable wait for the victim's arrival. But the Loeb production does not make the audience conscious of a mounting tension...
...breakthrough." A banker and mining executive as well as a lay pastor of a Liberian church, Tolbert seemed less excited by the significance of his election than were some other Baptists. "I haven't given it much thought," he said. "You see, we are not really racially conscious in Liberia...
...Hampton. In both Hamptons the ocean influences everything. Its pounding surf has created an unbroken beach of pure, soft, white sand. Moisture from the ocean causes a heavy dew at night so that golf courses rarely need water on their fairways. In general, the Hamptons are as rigidly socially conscious as Newport, and when snobbery has reared its gelid head it has sometimes been intensified by the rivalry between the two communities. For years, Southampton claimed a social edge. It had tighter restrictions on who could buy property in the community, and it barred Jews and looked askance at Catholics...