Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good reason, perhaps, but many implicit ones, and all present in the language of this novel. The time is coming, Percy insists through his hero, when people can choose to be less than themselves, through technology, or rediscover their spiritual amplitudes, for good or ill. To be fully conscious, even of the worst, seems preferable. Tom describes a sunfish caught in a local bayou: "The colors will fade in minutes, but for now the fish looks both perfectly alive yet metallic, handwrought in Byzantium and bejeweled beyond price, all the more amazing to have come perfect from the muck...
...ever produced. They wrangled over every aspect of politics and culture, and as the memoirs of the survivors show, after a half-century, sentiments have still not cooled. Particularly Hook's, who now regards the Partisans as the "Radical Comedians" because "there was something truly comic about their self-conscious role as political revolutionaries and cultural radicals; about the disparity between their profession and their performance...
...Kazo, the town where he lived, "the people are thought of as hicks by the ret of Japan." However, Frusztajer says, "I found the Japanese very status conscious. On the way home from the train station, I learned how much [my host father's] house, car and watch cost. It was very important for him to know the same things about my family...
...only were the Japanese status conscious, but they were also very concerned with protocol. Frusztajer recalls meeting a local girl who spoke some English and he asked his host father if he could visit with her on a platonic basis. Although his host father always gave him permission to visit with the girl, one day Frusztajer said he could not see her anymore because she had acted improperly in not asking the family if she could borrow their American guest. "I thought I was being the perfect guest, but I guess I insulted the family by implying that their company...
Reebok's $180 million acquisition of Avia Group International is another case of like marrying like: both companies make aerobics shoes. Reebok, which clads the feet of the fashion conscious, controls about 70% of the $330 million aerobics-shoe market. Privately held Avia, whose sales have risen from $3 million to more than $70 million during the past three years, enjoys about a 15% market share...