Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dreiser was far less a theorist than a humanist; essentially his novel is not a social thesis but the timeless story of family life. Of Solon's five children, one is set apart by her homeliness; one is a born Pharisee; one is a self-conscious beauty; one is an artist; one is a natural cavalier. Dreiser is interested mainly in the two latter, the arch-rebels. Against them Solon Barnes finds sternness and tolerance equally ineffective. His son and daughter, in the struggle to come to life as autonomous human beings, become thieves, and worse. The soberly beautiful...
Thus, as the accent on the news changed, TIME changed with it, in order to tidy it up for you and keep it in its logical departments. This conscious functionalism in shaping the week's news is uniquely important to TIME. In fact, it began with TIME...
...charter expires at year's end, except in China, where it continues through March 1947. Perhaps the gravest of all issues facing UNRRA was the question of its extension beyond the appointed deadline. The Atlantic City conference would not decide the point, but UNRRA officials were acutely conscious of it. Caustic critics clamored for its demise; but whatever UNRRA's faults, it was clear that some agency was needed to carry out its functions. By the time the green turns into yellow, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania should be able to produce most of their own food...
Young Willie White was highly conscious of belonging to Emporia's "ruling class." So it is not surprising that about a quarter of his 669-page autobiography is a nostalgic recall of the golden goodness of 19th-Century, mid-American boyhood-the swimming hole, sleigh rides, girls, Indian scares, boy fights, boy jobs...
Adoption, however, was all but impossible. Like British village matrons, British charitable institutions were turning up suddenly race-conscious noses at illegitimate mulatto babies. Even when the father and mother were married, U.S. custom sometimes intervened to prevent reunion. The League of Colored Peoples asked one Southern Negro father if he wanted to take his white wife to America. "Brother," he replied, "if I did, I would have to leave her in New York when I went home...