Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charged filter and helmet weigh about 4 Ibs. and are attached to the body by a harness or belt. The inventor, British Architect Richard Hinchliffe, 45, himself a longtime hay fever sufferer, claims that wearing the helmet for 30 minutes can provide a half-day's relief. Self-conscious sufferers, Hinchliffe suggests, can "customize their helmets with headsets or Deely Bobbers." Some 535 HHHS have been sold in the U.K., and 100 in the U.S., where one costs $189 plus shipping. The spacy headdress, which has not yet received medical endorsement, may be particularly good news for hay fever...
...every measure. The social muscle tone is firm, the civic climate earnest and naive. If it is true that the Japanese are somehow spiritually located now in the American '50s, are they doomed to endure the sequel, the cultural turmoil that arrived in the American '60s? The Japanese are conscious of the possibility. When they look at what America and Western Europe have done with their economic maturity, they see as much to avoid as to emulate. They see considerable failure: economic, social and moral...
...more than a surface appeal to the Japanese. The idea of cultural norms based on confrontation and "radical" displays of ego strikes them as embarrassing. The scheme whose parody is now being played to exhaustion among the graffitists and plate breakers of Soho-culture as a series of self-conscious grabs and Oedipal rebellions, cloning one short-lived artist-hero after another-is not the model of current Japanese...
...acquaintainces, 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...
Contemporary historians like to pretend that they are not the people who make history. Self-conscious about their central role in carving out a portrait of the past, they lapse into academic mumbling. Pick a manageable (small) subject, process enough data, arrange all available figures into charts and graphs, studiously suppress any hint of narrative judgment or point of view, and truth will be served. As a result, libraries are filling up with inaccessible accuracy, exhaustively researched big books on tiny topics. But facts do not speak for themselves; they are not even facts until someone formulates them. History...