Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel lacks serious purpose. Without evidence, she convicts a villain. Her book becomes a diatribe against Henry James who, she believes, singlehandedly created a new and inferior brand of fiction, "the pure novel." "When you think of James in the light of his predecessors," she writes, "you are suddenly conscious of what is not there: battles, riots, tempests, sunrises, the sewers of Paris, crime hunger, the plague, the scaffold, the clergy..." And most of all, she is convinced, ideas are gone. This is unconvincing in light of James' The Bostonians, a book packed with ideas...
...Gene") in which he speculated on altruism, religion and ethical principles. but the ideas he presented were not as radical as the response to them would indicate. The reaction was vocal because taking a middle-ground position in the controversy offers no safe harbor. When Wilson writes, with self-conscious moderation, "The evidence is strong that almost all differences between human societies are based on learning and social conditioning rather than heredity. And yet perhaps not quite all...," he leaves himself open to attack from both fronts, the most strenuous coming from strict environmental determinists. This group believes that giving...
THOUGH augmented by careful research and usually the product of intense scholarship, historical analysis is ultimately a subjective process. Despite the best attempts to root out conscious bias and to ferret through the meanings of facts and the inter-relations between them, subconscious influences affect the historian as he lays words to paper and makes the final decisions between facts, opinions and conclusions which will be included, and those that will remain behind...
...these strategies, price controls on domestic oil and natural gas-imposed to pacify a price-conscious public-has effectively discouraged U.S. production, necessitating foreign imports just when they most threatened U.S. security. Thus, imported oil's share of U.S. consumption boomed, reaching a peak of 47 per cent three years ago. "The painful 1973 Arab oil embargo seemed to have taught us nothing," Nye writes. Nor has America learned the lessons the 1979 Iranian Revolution's oil curtailment should have taught, they emphasize...
Fred Okrand, American Civil Liberties Union legal director for Southern California, is not impressed: "The tragedy is the conscious abandonment of the minority kids." But defenders of the community schools point out that they continue to support the public schools through local taxes: a typical Palisades family pays about $900 to $1,000 annually in taxes earmarked for the public school system...