Word: conscious
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...designs appear monumental, they are still comfortably related to the mortals who view them and use them. Wright, a short man, managed to give grandeur to a chair or a room or a house without intimidating us with its size. Nor does Prairie School ornament appear in the self-conscious manner in which post-modernists now glue or paint it on their designs. Wright and the Prairie School's precise geometric decorations-the leading on the glass, the pattern of brick and wood panels and curtains, the carvings of wood or stone-all seem organic, as much part...
...University's main legal counsel, a relationship which dates back to the 19th century. This year, however, Harvard's Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 began a series of changes which will significantly alter the way Harvard deals with Ropes and Gray. Steiner is now making a conscious effort to beef up the University's inside legal department. This spring he added Washington attorney Martin Michaelson to his three-and-a-half member staff, with the title of deputy general counsel. The general counsel also plans to bring up to four more lawyers to his office...
Although no students in either program would speak on the record, fearing reprisals from the South African government, results of a private national conference of SAEP students earlier this year revealed a wide variety of viewpoints toward American higher education. Along with complaints that Americans are too grade-conscious and that there is a surprising amount of racism in the U.S., the students also found that the college dorms are often too noisy to concentrate and the American accents of professors are sometimes difficult to understand...
...acquaintances, whose innocuous behavior she ascribed to twisted motives and deep-hidden Freudian urges. I kept in mind the fact that she herself had remained with an abusive husband for eight years. On top of it all, at 30 years of age, she was a veritable social cripple, self-conscious to the point of timidity, yet explosively angry whenever she did manage to summon up her feelings...
Sweet-toothed but calorie-conscious Americans constitute a mammoth market for soft drinks, but there have been problems among the profits. Cyclamates and saccharin, artificial sweeteners used in soft drinks during the past generation, were thought to cause cancer, at least in laboratory animals. Cyclamates were generally banned in 1970, but Congress saved saccharin by requiring a warning label on drinks that contain...