Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Annie, on the other hand, was much more complicated. She tempts writers, Lash believes, because "she had so many flaws and they were on the surface where you could get hold of them." Lash says he was "very conscious" of the natural bias toward Annie. Using the psychoanalyst's tools, he concludes in Helen and Teacher that Helen was forced into the position of drawing simple moral lines. "She knew how important Annie was to her," Lash explains. "She determined she would not allow any criticisms of Annie in her thoughts. That was the price she payed...
...still toasted as "our respected elder brothers," but Soviet propaganda plays skillfully on the theme that the country as a whole?the entire brotherhood of nationalities?is doing spectacular things in the world, and that all ethnic groups are benefiting. Says Harvard Professor Adam Ulam: "There is a consciousness of national greatness, a sense that the Soviet Union is now one of the two superpowers, that its influence is rising while the West's is declining. Psychologically, that has been a very strong factor in the average Soviet's attitude toward the regime. He is conscious of his prestige...
...skin-care products now being sold to men are as varied as anything ever served up to humanity's traditionally more wrinkle-conscious sex. Estée Lauder, purveyor of expensive creams, lotions and fragrances for women, offers a gilt-edged line of 70 different men's products under the Aramis label. Included in the list: pre-shave cleansing soaps to reduce razor drag and facial scrubs for use on the nose and forehead...
...combination of leaving her supportive home environment and exposing herself to more blatant forms of racism made her increasingly conscious of her race. The University's refusal to divest its stocks, the "abomination of final clubs" and a general lack of University support for the Afro-American studies department contributed to her realization that Harvard was steeped in a heritage and traditions that completely excluded minorities. Her feeling of being "at the University but not of it" was also compounded by being female--"I didn't even know if I was a Harvard or Radcliffe student," she says, adding...
Harvard proved less easy to mold than she hoped, but she made a self-conscious effort to thrust herself into University life. She and other members of the Radcliffe-Harvard Dance Co. "decided to start over" and formed a new company with new bylaws. She applied for her special concentration. She says both her senior tutor and the head of the special concentrations office laughed at her, but somehow her petition was granted and she officially began a concentration in choreographic theory...