Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland, "a thorough purge is going on in all phases of Jewish life . . . Politically conscious peoples are being forced to liquidate their past, and confess to crimes they never committed. Those who are able [to do so] flee the country...
Punishment. "I herewith state publicly that I intend to live down, if possible, the opprobrium of corruption. It is heartening that people deal with me in a spirit of understanding and kindness; it must be with some conscious effort...
Gilmour emphasized that the printing of more non-fiction articles represents an "expansion, and not a change of policy." The magazine, he said, does not seek to become "either a socially conscious publication or a political tour de force." The editors hope to print articles by undergraduates representing divergent points of view on many subjects...
...sincerely hope that a conscious effort will be made in the future to avoid irrelevant mention of skin colors and the like. I realize that we are all accustomed to notice the color of a man's skin first and foremost. It is his most striking physical characteristic. That is why a conscious effort is absolutely necessary to prevent the description of this characteristic from creeping in where it does not belong. Hans A. Wolf...
...think-and hence to talk clearly-a man must not only be conscious of the abstracting process, but he must also know the nature of a fact. He must remember that he never knows all about a "fact": there is always, as the count says, the "etc." Secondly, a fact (pencil x or John Smith) is not the same today as it was yesterday. A, despite Aristotle, is not always A. Therefore, "you must not think 'I am going in to dinner now,' " says the count. "You must think, 'I, February 1949, am going in to dinner...