Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four gathered at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria this week, the world was uncomfortably conscious that the advent of peace was still, 18 months after V-E day, 15 months after V-J day, not imminent. Could analogy support the hope that this peace was long-deferred because its issues were weightier and, therefore, less likely to be tossed aside...
...same unself-conscious way, Helen never doubted that she would be a great singer, and because she was so sure, she was in no hurry. When she was 23, in the summer of 1926, Rudolph Ganz, the conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, took her to New York's Lewisohn Stadium for a guest appearance. That was the year Lauritz Melchior made his Metropolitan debut in Tannhäuser, an event eclipsed by another debut the evening of the same day. With the greatest blowing & puffing of publicity ever to accompany a U.S. operatic debut, Marion Talley...
Nevertheless, with the biggest Christmas shopping spree in history apparently under way, Macy's President Jack I. Straus soberly told stockholders: "We are conscious of the inherent dangers [in future commitments] and are taking appropriate steps to follow a conservative course." In short, business was so good it might easily become...
...Some have seemed too wise after the event; many have not seemed wise enough before it. Drew Middleton's Our Share of Night is a welcome exception. It is written with rare honesty and simplicity. Best of all is his reason for writing, stated not in a self-conscious foreword but in the last sentence of the book: "Now perhaps I can forget...
Sprawled out in a semi-conscious state on the forty-yard stripe, late in the game, a scarlet warrior provoked the quote of the afternoon from a slightly anxious Crimson rooter, who bellowed, "Bury him where he's lying--we haven't any time to waste...