Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethnocentrism in self-proclaimed pluralistic societies--as both Harvard and America purport to be--however, should not be tolerated as a guiding principle. Whether through apathy or conscious choice, most Harvard students and administrators have done just this. In so doing, they have insulted minority students by denying the legitimacy of their cultures...
...statements in court, reprinted in full-page advertisements in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Goldsmith emphasized that he had not meant to imply that Spiegel had knowingly cooperated with the KGB. Spiegel's British attorney, John Wilmers, conceded, "Although they themselves are not conscious of having been used, my clients are conscious of the dangers to press freedom posed by Soviet covert propaganda." Both sides described the outcome as a moral victory...
...rationalizers are more self-conscious (and socially conscious) in their reasoning. They generally argue that, yes, I as an individual may feel an obligation to help those less fortunate than myself, but what right do I have to impose that feeling on others? Robert Nozick is a rationalizer...
...specific fallings, but lacks the air of nobility which should add extra bitterness to his fall. The same deficiency appears in Arthur Strimling's Kent; Strimling plays a servant, rather than a nobleman playing a servant. That complexity is crucial to the role of Kent, since in a class-conscious Elizabethan context, Kent's willingness to humble himself gives the most extreme proof of his devotion to Lear...
...marriage. The book also springs from Klein's perception that there were gender-associated differences in the way she responded as a young mother to her own son William, now 27, and daughter Emily, 23, and the way they responded to her. "I tended to be more self-conscious with William," she recalls, "and more spontaneous with Emily...