Word: conscious
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...personal level, there tends to arise some problematic issues about how to maintain a professional relationship. Dana M. Scardigli ’01-’02, also a Crimson editor, said that after becoming more acquainted with her thesis adviser, an anthropology professor, she had to become hyper-conscious of maintaining a professional air during the thesis-writing process. Scardigli socialized with her adviser and his wife at dinner parties at their home in Cambridge and while all three were doing summer research at the same time in Rome...
...This is still a color-conscious society,” he said. “There is much work to be done...
...spoken and modest to a fault, the pianist converted to Roman Catholicism as a teenager. "My faith affects my art because it affects my life," he explains. "Specifically, it puts things into perspective--success, failure, the opinions of others and all of the madness of life. I'm also conscious of participating in the creation of beauty when I play great music and of dealing with matters beyond the world of words...
Beyond meticulous organization, the PSLM was conscious from the outset of the other factors conspiring to raise their media prominence into the stratosphere. Bartley concedes that there “was a definite visual intensity of the image which we didn’t even need to choregraph,” this photogenic nature of the strike stemming in no small part from the mystique of Harvard itself. But, across from the omniscient eye of John Harvard, the students realised that Harvard’s hallowed name was both a boon and a burden for their cause...
DiMaggio was particuarly conscious that the students were being presented as “a model of altruistic sentiment,” which complicated the notion of solidarity by placing the students above the workers as their “saviors,” a role which the PSLM actively decries. Moreover, he explains that a common media angle would be to use the PSLM actions as a nostalgic trigger for the journalist to wax lyrical on “the good old days of protest”: the baby boomer sixties. “They would...