Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British masses not only know of the plenty that exists in America, but, more important, are in the psychologically unsound position of being at the receiving end of countless gifts, ranging from individual parcels to the US Loan. Not to be overlooked either as catalysts in forming this conscious or unconscious attitude are the American views toward Palestine and the sight of new Buicks and Packards in Grosvenor Square...
...their mind no matter how pernicious their doctrine may be. The worth of ideas is to be tested in the marketplace of political discussion, and the decision to be rendered at the polls. The very liberal groups that denied Smith a hearing should be the ones that are most conscious of the necessity for free speech for all--not just for those with whom they happen to agree--if change and progress is to be accomplished without violence. Yet their action is all the more deplorable since they are private organizations and not accountable for their conduct in any election...
...Luncheon confusion was not confined to Washington last week. In London, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas addressed the American Chamber of Commerce, got his tongue twisted, referred to Britain as "the workhouse of the world." He meant "workshop," not an institution for paupers. British newsmen, conscious of Britain's workhouse-like austerity regulations, grinned wryly...
...charge against the government is "inefficiency". Everyone agrees that whichever party were in control in these difficult times would have a terrible job, but Conservatives cannot be happy under a government whose announced aims, they say, include not worrying about anyone with more than a 1000 pound income. Tradition-conscious upper middle class people make polite jokes about the boorishness of Labor ministers, sigh "If Mr. Churchill were only running things," and act like virtual disinterested strangers in their own country...
Abruptly Vag was impelled forward by an energetic whack on the shoulder. He looked around and up at a pleased-looking bronzed lad, yelled, "Sturdy!" and suddenly his freshman year was near and vividly remembered. Sturtevant Pendrake had been the most aggressively self-conscious dilettante and social figure in Vag's prewar circle. Vag had at that time known many ivy-towerish characters, but he still recalled his start of surprise at walking into Sturdy's room and finding ivy growing on the inside walls, deep and luxuriant. Sturdy it was who started the fad of the costs of many...