But there was an unspoken, and more pointed, subtext: his continued dismay at the court's 5-to-4 ruling two years ago that invalidated the effort by the public schools of Louisville, Ky., to prevent resegregation by use of a modestly race-conscious student assignment plan.
"We were not conscious of our assignments in our zone, which is the most important area.
But Stern's aim was to satirize misogyny, not normalize it, and she must have been conscious of subverting her assignment.
In that case, which concerned racially conscious K-12 student assignment plans in districts struggling to preserve the hard-won gains of integration, Chief Justice Roberts failed to persuade Justice Kennedy to go along with a sweeping opinion declaring that preventing resegregation was not a "compelling interest" sufficient to justify a policy that took students' race into account.
A swift read and half the length of most novels today, Gatsby rewards the aspiring novelist looking less for obvious symbols and themes -- the prey of the analytical assignment-conscious reader -- than for things like macrostructure and revision, the quarry of the craft-conscious writer.
Here is 20th-century history as seen by heroic (Capa and Burrows both died on war assignments), socially conscious, playful and persuasive photographers, who turned their craft into art.
It was the kind of homework assignment a self-conscious Latina dreaded most.
By the end of my Peace Corps assignment, I made the conscious decision that this would be my life's work, a profession that up until that time I hadn't known existed.
An editor at a rival publication, who did not want to be identified commenting on the competition, suggested that giving Mr. Bowles wacky assignments has been a conscious strategy on Ms. Wintour's part to make him more accessible.
We found a significant difference in 11 out of 12 assignments (p < 0.01), which shows that learners made a conscious attempt to avoid more violated constraints in the assignments.
