Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen much combat service. All had been self-conscious about fitting themselves back into civilian ways. But they were feeling no pain-at least in the first stages of changeover. Said ex-Parachutist Edward Burns, veteran of six campaigns, of hospitalization for battle exhaustion: "I'm still pretty nervous, but I'll make it all right by myself. Just let the men alone. Don't go sympathizing...
...when Father Woollcott came home and kissed his son, little Aleck tried to stab him with a fork. Dressing up in his sister's clothes was his favorite pastime. By the time he went to school, the boy was a weak-eyed, skinny mollycoddle and prig, already "pathetically conscious of being a misfit." He would jeer at anyone who had a squint or a clubfoot; homely girls made him burst into hysterical laughter. He thrilled with the hope of being kidnapped. Charles Dickens and Louisa M. Alcott were his idols. To confidants he showed a collection of photographs...
...confetti had barely been swept from U.S. streets when Georgia's tax-conscious Senator Walter F. George said a mouthful: taxes should now be substantially reduced-"effective on 1946 incomes, regardless of the status of the war against Japan. Otherwise, we can't make the turn to peace and maintain a high level of production...
Tuesday was different. The country was at the radio. The people began to get the self-conscious feeling that they were witnessing history. In Manhattan, as if someone had pulled a giant lever, the windows went up and paper tumbled in torrents, soon after the President's first words were heard. For minutes, a diapason of booming whistles from the grey ships in the North River seemed to drown out everything. Then, as if they might burst unless they let it off, people began to shout...
Always a good German, Strauss has been an on-again-off-again friend of the Nazis. Last June, he publicly snapped his fingers at Hitler's threat to cancel his birthday celebration, said: "It was not I who started the war" (TIME, July 17). Even then, the Kultur-conscious Nazis, considering his prestige valuable to Germany, let him be. As the war approached his doorstep, the aged composer continued to cultivate his musical garden...