Word: conscious
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...Brooks and Summers, though, both failed to point out the self-conscious anxiety of Cambridge’s organization kids. Students here know that they’re compelled to succeed for success’ sake. We’re flooded with prospects, whether it’s being an executive on The Crimson, chairing a student group, joining a final club, or leading a Phillips Brooks House Association program...
...Soon, and without my making a conscious effort to do so, my thoughts settled on a speech my coach had given earlier in the year at the annual Head of the Charles banquet. Speaking in the grandiose surroundings of Boston’s Harvard Club, he noted, “When you’ve been around the sport for as long as I have, you realize that sometimes the wind blows. The kids of course don’t want to realize it; but, sometimes, the wind just blows...
...longer the sixties and many of us were as grade-conscious and professionally oriented as your generation is now,” Matory says. “We were quite distant from a 1968 campus...
...that Japan's social welfare services are too passive, doing too little to head off crises until it's too late. Shortcut solutions like Jikei Hospital's stork cradle are more common, giving anxious parents an anonymous out rather than providing them with meaningful support. But an increasingly budget-conscious government doesn't appear eager to allocate the necessary funding. "The child consultation services are very understaffed and suffering hard," says Saimura...
Again, I believe that the problem facing us is not one of conscious racism. It is, instead, embedded into the minds of people at a usually subconscious level. When these thoughts and perceptions manifest themselves in the form of unfair treatment and quick assumptions, the dignity and legitimacy of the place of certain people in our society and our community are questioned...