Word: phenomena
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...bedroom became the fixed point on which my melancholy and anxious thoughts were centered. Someone had had the happy idea of giving me, to distract me on evenings when I seemed abnormally wretched, a magic lantern ... it substituted for the opaqueness of my walls an impalpable iridescence, supernatural phenomena of many colours, in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory window." The lantern is still there. So is the scrubby garden behind the house, with the little door whose tinkling gate bell announced visitors-and signaled that the young Proust was to be sent...
...Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. Last week he told the Wall Street Journal that inhabitants of other worlds are holding off on their visitations to the troubled earth because they feel that they would either be worshiped as gods or feared as conquerors. The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena thinks that such speculations are sheer nonsense but still refuses to reject UFOs out of hand. Says the committee's executive director, G. Stuart Nixon (no kin to the President): "Right now, our biggest problem is overcoming the negative social climate created by the Condon report. People are afraid...
...government-because of a "split in the ruling class" over the war and its incumbent phenomena-seems to evade the rhetorical definitions we would ascribe, so does the movement. Which continues to find itself caught schizophrenically between outrage at what cannot continue in a world of rational men and sustained militance, born of a desire to overthrow that which is in the very nature of a world demarcated by class rather than good and evil. A world in which imperialist wars at not mistakes to be undone but rational, self-interested investment protection, and will thus be inevitable until...
...Your features on nostalgia and Broadway's looking back bring to mind the familiar phenomena of the recall and the anticipation always exceeding the actual event. The grass is always greener some other place, some other time...
...COME effectively to terms with John A. Williams's most recent book, The King God Didn't Save, "Reflections on the Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.," one must deal with three complex phenomena which-both as individual and collective entities-reveal much of the nature of America today and over the years of King's public prominence...