Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...healthy relationship; on my view, love begins at the moment when the well-being of the other becomes an independent value. This is certainly a form of "forgetting" oneself, but in no way a vicious one. Only through this sort of "forgetfulness" is it possible to be conscious of others in the most profoundly empathetic way, and this deep connection is completely in keeping with the spirit of the rally. Genuine respect for the freedom and dignity of others may find its starting place in this sort of selfless love, experienced by most of us for the first time from...
...DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONscious parody of and simple misexection of a given film genre is sometimes very slim. Extreme Prejudice, the latest installment in the inconsistent career of Hollywood stoneface Nick Nolte, purports to be a classic action film, combining elements from spy thrillers, cops-and-robbers flicks and even Westerns. Extreme Prejudice, however, is actually an amusing farce about a group of characters so stiff with machismo that their joints creak every time they reach for their trusty six-shooters. Which is often...
...special interest appears depends on whether the viewer is a budget-conscious Congressman, an ivory-tower academic, or a headline-grabbing Education Secretary. All agree, however, that higher education is being scrutinized much more closely and that government is willing to make serious cuts into what it once viewed as a sacred...
...book is not a novel and is best read as a semi-fictionalized case study--though one made all the more intriguing by the author's self-conscious narration. Schumer's language is brisk and informative, and she successfully avoids turning sentiment into a soppy trip down memory lane. And a decade later, the reader gets the impression that the characters are ready to put it all behind them. "I never wanted to see [them] again....[a]ll those goblins of growing up--fear, envy, insecurity and sloth," Schumer writes after a return to her freshman room. "And all that...
...NEWCOMER to the academic community, Women's Studies--like many Harvard freshmen--is self-conscious and slightly narrow-minded. But critics of Harvard's planned concentration in the area forget that Women's Studies has as much claim to independent existence as a score of other disciplines formed over the past 100 years...