Word: conscious
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...mechanics and genetics.As our “red book” of 1945 was born from the ashes of the Second World War, Columbia’s Core was born amidst the optimism of the “Wilsonian moment” after World War I, when educators were conscious of the need to accommodate themselves quickly to a profoundly changed world. As conflicts reshape our world yet again, it is time we realize that Michael Caine is right. The decision to make our liberal arts core more rigorous is a difficult but correct one.Pierpaolo Barbieri...
...long-term commitment to renewable energy development is only part of Patrick’s plan to be environmentally conscious. To reduce pollution in the short term, he wants to expand investment in public transportation and give tax breaks for fuel-efficient cars and home appliances. He is also committed to clean energy. In fact, he was one of the earliest supporters of the Cape Wind Project, which will build a wind farm off the coast of Nantucket, when it was unpopular and politically risky. Patrick’s commitment to his values—in this case protecting...
...tradition. Like Chaplin's original vision, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope and Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg's Dreamworks SKG (now owned by those baddies at Viacom), Cruise's UA will, apparently, attempt to nurture a creative environment for filmmakers. In an ever-more bottom-line-conscious era of movie-making, it sounds like an impossible mission. But then, we hear this guy has experience with that sort of thing...
...kind of lives are these? We’re like children, we’re not men!” At the highlight of 90s television. Larry David—the episode’s writer and the show’s creator—masterfully captures the self-conscious relationship anxiety that made “Seinfeld” so fun to watch. Rhimes, too, understands her show’s basic appeal.She knows that it’s great fun to watch men and women with advanced degrees behave like horny teenagers, but such a premise can only...
...relying on “the rod and the reel” to feed his family. Predating the Killers’ similar appropriation by several decades, Joel’s irony may have been unintended, but the best of the genre, and its musical ancestors, relied on a self-conscious tension between catchiness and acerbity...