Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the College, says that a "change in consciousness has permeated social relations between men and women. People are more self-conscious about being alert to these issues." Swartz says that when he first came to Harvard. "I wasn't sensitive to or as knowledgeable about harassment." He says he first thought the specific cases were isolated incidents, and that he was surprised by the studies. In the fall, as news director of WHRB, he talked to the staff and told them "to be extra careful of how they treated the compers, that they were...
...elected to Phi Beta Kappa, awarded scholarships, admitted to graduate school. I did not understand how they did it. I never suspected, of course, that these were social problems. It was a frightening new experience in which I no longer recognized myself. Drugs were only an aid in the conscious cremation of talent and possibility. Many of us, I think, lived in the light of a flame passed from matchstick to matchstick...
...Napoleon complex," Shales says "Ted's short, and he's conscious of exerting a grandeur. On 'Nightline,' he's the monarch of all he surveys But," Shales adds, "I think he keeps it under control...
Hardly any part of Radcliffe life was easy--not even the geography! Most of us loved Cambridge--the city that didn't seem like a city. We were much more conscious of greater Cambridge than the Harvard students because of all the walking and biking needed to reach everything important in our lives. Nearly every Radcliffe student had at least one really long trip in her schedule every term. As a result, we carried a sense of street danger. At night the Common, a convenient shortcut, was unsafe, and the very dark side streets had deservedly poor reputations. I remember...
...were conscious of each other's cultural and social backgrounds. Some girls clustered with others of the same background while others spread out. One hesitated before becoming too romantically involved with someone of a different religion. Except for the Harvard eating clubs (notoriously WASP) we didn't hear about much prejudice, either at Harvard or Radcliffe. There were quite obviously few Black students. For many of us these were the first Black friends...