But they are also "age mates," having entered the American consciousness around the same time.

Like the five-day work week and glasses in about an hour, the 3,000-mile oil change is part of the American consciousness.

But neither had anything beyond homilies to offer on a night when race could hardly have been more central to American consciousness.

The 3,000-mile oil change is part of the American consciousness.

Ever since, it has found new ways of emerging on the American consciousness.

They still do, although this event has not exactly permeated the American consciousness.

And in 2004, his presidency was far from the center of American consciousness.

But what's beyond doubt is that they continue to touch a nerve at the very center of American consciousness.

A tragic sense of life has seeped, perhaps for the first time, into the American consciousness.

The banjo entered the American national consciousness in the middle of the 19th century.