Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Child of Three. Dunninger accepts the applause and bafflement of his audiences with the conscious modesty of a great man. He says: "A child of three can do what I do-with 30 years' practice." Dunninger, 53, has been on the boards for 35 years. He has mystified six U.S. Presidents the Duke of Windsor, Steinmetz, Thomas Edison, and the Pope (who, Dunninger reports, gave him a few bad moments by thinking in Latin...
...tuxedoed and evening-gowned audience that filled little Jubilee Hall at Aldeburgh on Britain's windswept Suffolk coast last week was beginning to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable. They had just learned that they could not sit back and listen to the premiere of Benjamin Britten's sixth opera, Let's Make an Opera!; they had to take part...
Though mildly successful, WCFL was not copied by other unions until the FCC's postwar decision to open a new band for FM transmitters made the gamble seem worthwhile. Publicity-conscious unions were in the forefront of the scrambling applicants for construction permits. In the past year, the United Auto Workers have gone on the air with station WDET in Detroit, and this month will open WCUO in Cleveland. The I.L.G.W.U. beams its message to the South through Chattanooga's WVUN, and last November invaded the West Coast with Los Angeles' KFMV, "the FM Voice of Southern...
Chase It. Henry James was always conscious of the pit. He set some of his novels directly in its depths, populated many of his short stories with jittery, conscience-prodding ghosts. The 18 stories now brought together into one volume are a notable contribution to the quake-and-quiver school of writing; they are also subtle portraits of people disturbed by their own failures and weaknesses...
English A-conscious freshmen now have to leap onto the porch, but the Department said that the Maintenance Department will provide a repaired front step within...