Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideological terms, Tyndall describes his party as both nationalist and racist. Front members are fervently patriotic believers in British and western cultural superiority, and like their Nazi predecessors, have imagined a conscious Communist-led conspiracy intent upon undermining it. Front members are also overtly racist, and Tyndall describes himself as an "unashamed white supremacist." He believes that whites are "intellectually, although not physically or morally, superior to blacks," and advocates the compulsory repatriation of Britain's four million colored immigrants...
...DOUBTFUL that the situation could remain the same for that long. Just last week, the Sandinistas launched another in a series of military offensives that began last October, engaging the National Guard in the villages of Granada, Rivas and Corinto. The Sandinista front has made a conscious effort to transcend their narrow revolutionary ideology and military approach, and instead enlist the support of all Somoza opponents in a pluralistic coalition. With the increasing political support of non-Socialist groups such as the Conservative Party and the "radical Christians," the Sandinista effort to topple the dictatorial Somoza regime appears bound...
...grown bigger, it has become more bureaucratic. Too much superfluous paper is circulated. Analysts are more conscious of job and status, and less daring and imaginative than they were in the '50s and '60s. Says an Administration official: "There's a lot of bureaucratic ass-covering that goes on when guys write long-range stuff. They don't want to be wrong, so they tend to be glib and platitudinous...
...theatrical potential of the murders he commits, and ten lines rarely pass without a plot recap. It's rather like the old math problem about the frog in the slippery well who cannot jump three feet without falling back two. In addition, Levin makes his characters as self-conscious as his playwrighting. "Nothing recedes like success," quips Bruhl, and is so taken with the phrase that he writes it down for use by some character in his play (called, appropriately enough, Deathtrap). Outlining the plot, which follows closely the plot of the play we're watching, he concedes that...
...little too self-conscious to be much fun, and Robert Moore directs smoothly but without invention, serving the play rather than creating any visual stylishness. Deathtrap may have enough laughs to last a short time on Broadway, but as thrillers go, this one should be called Deathrattle...