Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citizens are really soldiers on eleven months' leave. Israel, moreover, has carefully tried to avoid glamorizing the military; only in recent years, for example, have medals been awarded-and then sparingly. But credit is also due in large part to the foresight of the late David Ben-Gurion. Conscious that Israel would have to remain a fortress state, the first Premier insisted that it not become a militaristic one. Ben-Gurion was so determined to keep the army out of politics that it was not until after he left office that officers (including even the chief of staff) were...
...came the stretchers, taking him to the hospital for tests (the next day some smart-aleck headline writer would proclaim: "X-Rays of Dean's Head Show Nothing"). Dean's brother Paul, who owned a looping curveball and the nickname Daffy, met the press later. Yes, his brother was conscious as they carted him off the field, Daffy replied; he was talking the whole time. But what did he say? And Daffy shot back with pure Arkansas honesty, "He didn't say nothing. He was just talking...
...blue-collar hostility to aerobic exercises probably relates to the exerciser's perverse dissipation of energy. Conservation has always been the ethic of the lower middle class, and it is silly to watch the fitness-conscious executive...
Critics claim Wald is too image conscious, exploiting research and issues for his personal exposure. But his contributions to science and society have come about as a result of the public's perception of him--regardless of its accuracy. As Mendelson says, Wald, with his creative intellect and moral convictions, has "pierced the mystique of science" and "set a new standard for scholars...
...began eyeing a more glamorous career in television. This summer she is entering graduate school at Ole Miss with a radio/TV fellowship. She has landed her first journalistic job-as studio manager of the university's closed circuit cable television station. "It's an exposure-conscious field and there are a lot of attractive women who will enter it," says she. "You've got to be pretty and perky and you've got to be capable...