Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This report also said that he fought off the police until they subdued him. By the time a fire department rescue truck arrived seven minutes later, McDuffie's face, according to one policeman there, "looked like it was sprayed with a can of red paint." McDuffie was still conscious but soon lapsed into a coma; he died four days later of head injuries...
...construction of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (which began as an allegory of venereal disease, a subject of great interest to the energetic Pablo), of Guernica, and on into his "Mediterranean" subjects of the 1930s, with their bulls and horses, virgins and Minotaurs, caves, ruins and nymphs. Allegory was the conscious, intelligible form of Picasso's vast instinctive talent for metamorphosis, whereby a single form could harbor two or more literal meanings: a glass of absinthe including a drunkard's head, a guitar turning into a torso or a vagina, a bicycle seat becoming a bull's head. Moreover, the ability...
Moses said the program is designed to make the enire Harvard community more safety-conscious by impressing upon students the need for precautions when they arrive as freshmen...
...Dreams are private myths. Myths are vehicles of communication between the conscious and the unconscious, just as dreams are." The myth of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the great gods on Olympus and gave it to man, can be viewed as a dream of aspiration, reflecting the exuberance and almost celestial confidence of the Greeks. The contrasting and contemporary Hebrew story of Job has the opposite meaning: it symbolizes man's submission to a power above himself, cruel and incomprehensible as it may seem...
...fancy, perhaps, but each of Brian's successive drafts was clearer, better punctuated, more vivid and more conscious of his reader. These are the main goals of Graves, who, with a $240,000 grant from the National Institute of Education, teaches writing to elementary school pupils in a style more like that of a working editor than a stern grammarian. The experiment is part of a wave of writing reform that is sweeping through schools, colleges and businesses all over the U.S. In the age of talk shows, tape recorders, telephonitis and declining educational standards, the clearly written word...