Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abstain Is Treason." In normally conservative country districts, the extreme Left scored gains. In normally radical industrial centers, including Paris, the extreme Left lost ground. For this unexpected twist there was an explanation. Communist propaganda had reached its peak effectiveness in the politically conscious cities last October. Since then, city-dwellers had mulled over the Red slogan, "Thorez to Power!", balked at the implication of dictatorship. The crest of Communist propaganda had hit rural areas later. Country folks' reaction to the cry for power to Communist Leader Maurice Thorez might well become evident in next month's elections...
...Camus pictures him, Meursault is neither crazy nor criminal; nor is he a conscious rebel protesting against the pressures of society. He is simply a person who "exists," a man to whom nothing really matters. He has no positive beliefs, political or nonpolitical. Before committing the murder, he goes about his daily work, makes friends casually, attends his mother's funeral casually, casually promises to marry a girl. When the time comes. he quite as casually pulls the trigger of the revolver. Meursault does not regret it. Murder, he feels, makes no difference, for everything in life comes...
...What writers belonging to the upper class have received from nature for nothing, plebeians acquire at the cost of their youth." James Farrell, a self-conscious plebeian -who has already estimated the cost of youth in the hundreds of thousands of words of his Studs Lonigan trilogy and Danny O'Neill tetralogy - quotes this remark of Anton Chekhov's at the beginning of Bernard Clare. It is the first of a new series of novels about a young. Chicago-Irish plebeian who fights against odds to make himself into a novelist...
...Russian Government, painfully conscious of its atomic-bomblessness, had made Kapitza's name a national reassurance. "Don't worry," it comforted its people, "the great Kapitza will build you a bomb in no time." According to Russian reports and rumors, he was buzzing around like a June bug, supervising the building of cyclotrons, studying cosmic rays, taking full scientific charge of the Soviet's own Manhattan (or Moscow) Project. Generalissimo Stalin was said to have called him into his presence and offered him everything he needed...
...Winterset," a great Broadway success in the past, has strong appeal for Cambridge's socially conscious cognoscenti. The play's most optimistic statement, rendered by the venerable Esdros, played by John Simon proclaims that the best man can expect from this vale of sorrow is to be able o live with courage and die with dignity. Tying up this joyous philosophy in a neat bundle, the final curtain finds the innocent lovers, Mio and Miriamne, bulletriddled and lifeless, while the judge who sentenced the guiltless man to the chair, the real murderer, and a craven coward who shielded the killer...