Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week long, the candelabra and chilled-wine circuit hummed with hostesses plotting and providing. Mostly it was the embassies that entertained the visitors; being conscious of the high importance of congressional favor, they also invited key Senators. Robert Taft's attempt to cut EGA authorizations (see The Congress) set off Senate debates which lasted until 11 p.m., and spoiled dinners all along Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row. Many a hostess who invited a Senator had to settle for just his wife...
Slaves fo Delusions. Specialization had its defenders. Harvard's Professor of Education Phillip Rulon argued that scientists, by & large, were well educated and civically conscious. Purdue's Engineering Dean Andrey Potter contended that engineering schools today respected the humanities. Purdue's average engineering student, he said, spends four-fifths of his time on his specialty, and one-fifth on the humanities, i.e., the rest of the universe. Even this slim ration is considerably cut by many schools...
Francisco Franco, Dictator of Spain, observing the tenth anniversary of his Civil War, had words of modest reassurance for his followers: "You must stick closely together, confident that he who led you so many times to victory is wholly conscious of his duty and will never desert his post of honor...
...time he was twelve, John Wilbert Glaefke was miserably self-conscious about his looks. Playmates, with childish cruelty, called him "big lips" and "bulldog." In junior high, a teacher asked him in front of the class if he had any Negro blood. When he reached the age of wanting dates, the girls looked at him with frank distaste or fear and refused...
...Letters. Much the same class-conscious humiliation caused Shaw to leave his clerk's stool in a Dublin office and seek his fortune as a literary man-for "you cannot be imposed upon by baronets ... if you belong to the republic of art." He is sure that men of letters have been made this way, time & again. "Think of . . . the boy Dickens [working] in the blacking warehouse, and his undying resentment of his mother's wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could...