Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Indians who currently attend Harvard are not very vocal, but they are discretely conscious of their roots. Tsosie is the president of the 10-year-old Harvard American Indian Association, which unlike the American Indian community at Dartmouth, has little Native American tradition to draw...
...many agree that educated American Indians want to help their own, and will go back to the reservation at some point in their lives. Roubideaux, a pre-med is especially conscious of the health problems on reservations and in the poor section of her hometown...
...jury on the legal definition of libel. Drawing upon U.S. Supreme Court rulings on what a public figure must show to prove "actual malice," Sofaer said Sharon's lawyers must demonstrate not only that the TIME paragraph was "false and defamatory" but that the magazine published it with "conscious awareness of falsity or with serious doubts as to the truth...
AFEW YEARS ago, when The Sex Pistols first toured America, this country began to be conscious of a strange movement, an unprecedented mix of nihilistic attitudes, bizarre fashion and screeching volume--punk, What is called "new wave," though, is hardly new at all. The punk movement was simply a case of fashion catching up to where the fringe movements of art had been for years. If we look back as far as the 1910s, we can see a distinct and sometimes exact precursor of the punks' nihilism in a group called the Dada. What is new about the punks...
...narrators themselves from a sixteen-year old chemistry students to a middle-aged fraternity housemother, each struggle to discover or regain, their distinct identify, Ultimately, they seize upon the same potential solution--conscious identification with a famous name. (For John Dillinger, his own name.) Through this reflected or retracted glory they try to escape the squalled nature of their own lives. A nameless drama teacher dreams of the time when she taught James Dean "to kiss... and to die." A young woman writes to her missionary lover missing in China (John Birch) without hope of a reply. She writes...