Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he is back in the U.S., white-haired Dr. Dodge hopes to make more Americans conscious of the importance of maintaining the seven Near East colleges as outposts of American influence and democratic attitudes.* The American College at Sofia, Bulgaria, has already succumbed; it was closed by the Nazis, and the Russians have not let it reopen...
...character of the modern Don Juan, who is unable to live up to his paradoxically ascetic ideals, has been vulgarized nobly by Maurice Evans. Instead he shows a comically flat and self-conscious hero, who completely lacks the real pathos of the Shavian creation. Emoting in the worst Shakespearean tradition, Evans draws plenty of laughs, and provides adequate surface entertainment; again a more solid treatment is called for. But Frances Rowe as the unscrupulous female, who pursues him to eventual triumph, is superb. Alternately voluptuous and indignant, she glides through her tasty part with complete competence, while the other players...
...Protest. Avellanada's death marked the end of a tumultuous week at the school. The student body, mostly boys of poorer families, has long been politically conscious, took part in the turbulence from which APRA rose a quarter-century ago. Despite a recent law banishing politics from schools, it is still a bastion of Aprista influence...
...labor laws and his inflationary wage increases for the country's deteriorating economy; but if he tries to withdraw the favors granted, he runs the risk of losing labor support. If he does nothing, and the economy worsens, his split with the Army will widen. Perón, conscious of this danger, has harped on the theme of "nefarious forces" attempting to sabotage his regime. Government newspapers have recalled that 1,500,000 died in the Mexican revolution. Evita, echoing the ominous note, said last week: "If I have to fall I will fall in front of my descamisados...
...matter how angry James gets . . . we stand for the broadest freedom of the press which serves the people and belongs to the people. We stand for an honest press which is conscious of its responsibility. Such is our conception of the freedom of the press, and that is the conception of genuine democracy...