Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always there are some stares. Awkward is the only way to carry all this stuff. Did he sense laughter, derision in the faces of some of those he passed by? He recalled the words of captain Joe Del Ponte '78: "Initially, for me, the job made me more class conscious. Through repeated exposure to all this disdain, I realized just how ridiculous the people doing the disdaining really were." And Del Ponte's further encouragement: "I've always extolled the virtue and the pride to be found in a job well done. At least that's what I tell...
...Grade Conscious...
...these days when every student is grade conscious," Riesman said, "a course with no final exam--where there is no certainty of a high grade--the students would tend to take a course seriously. A few students have failed, to their astonishment...
...seen conscious or unconscious discrimination," Glazer said. "In fact, what I've seen is interest, willingness to expand employment," he said...
...youth-conscious America, the subject of death has, until recently, remained one of the last unmentionables. Now there are signs of a more realistic approach to the inevitable. Colleges offer courses in thanatology, and churches present seminars on coping with death. Few viewers, however, will quite be prepared for the overpowering impact of Roemer's immensely humane yet all too chilling treatment of the subject. The show begins with an interview that is not one of the case histories...