Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain," says the Herald guide frankly, "is very dollar-conscious," but there is a limit to the sacrifices some Britons would make for the sake of the almighty greenback. In London's West End last week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book...
Dean Sperry made use of the text as a remedy for man's current troubles, pointing out that "our too self-conscious and self-centered life needs the wholesome correction of a less introspective mind...
Said the Moscow radio with a self-conscious tremolo: "The historic victory of the Soviet people over the enemy has . . . demonstrated . . . the exceptional devotion of the entire population . . . toward the Soviet motherland. . . . For crimes punishable by the death sentence under laws now in force [the courts will] apply in peacetime confinement in corrective labor camps for 25 years...
...Windsor, Toronto, Port Colborne, Brantford and London. Many are men who left their families behind them in Yugoslavia before the war. Others are oldsters pining for their native land. Most came to Canada as adults; they have had difficulty learning English, continue to feel like strangers. Some are politically conscious Communists. Many are not. But none of the emigrants believes that Tito's regime can be more tyrannical than the Karageorgevitch dynasty whose oppression they fled...
Buck Hunt. Most of Billy's conscious running has always been in the direction of money. Says he: "I spent the first 40 years of my life in the buck hunt. There was nothing in the world but Billy Rose and he was going to get his. It's a tough street, I told myself, and you'd better learn how to count." With Billy, that has often meant counting other people...