Word: phenomena
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writes Mrs. Purtell, "is the feeling of adult responsibility [which makes parents try] to find the reasons behind so many of the actions which alarm them." In her briskly written, though not startlingly new, account of parents' problems and ways to solve them, Author Purtell deals with such phenomena as going steady, parties, the adolescent revolution, and the adolescent and alcohol. Like Tiffany's Hoving, Parent Purtell advises nonchalance and an understanding hand with the kids. Parents, she says, "should stop torturing themselves...
...gaudy tour of Cocoa Beach, the community nearest Cape Canaveral, enraged the citizens of Cocoa Beach but showed the rest of the country the phenomena that spring up around the space age's launching pads: beatniks swinging as if hooked on liquid oxygen, splashy motels by the mile, a real estate agent selling outback lots for $1,595 an acre, a wiggly blonde singing in a nightspot about her A-O.K. flight in a rocket with her spaceman. Then he switched to Britain's cheap-jack sex-and-crime newspapers and an abrasively candid interview with Cecil...
...mind is assaulted by billions of events, objects, people and impressions (including some 7,000,000 discriminable colors). Yet, notes Bruner, "people can handle only a limited amount of information at one time." To make sense in this plight, humans rely chiefly on categorization and hypothesis-making. They group phenomena in terms of common properties-hot, cold, safe or dangerous. In thus categorizing things to arrive at concepts, they move from an "open hypothesis" stage of rejecting inappropriate information to a "closed hypothesis" stage of suddenly deciding "this is it." Especially with children, a basic problem is learning to take...
Sometimes three-quarters of a mile long, forming as early as 6:30 a.m., doubling and redoubling upon itself through a maze of sawhorses set up by New York police, the line of people waiting to get into the Music Hall is one of the phenomena of modern show business. Extra long now in the tourist summer (70% out-of-towners), it is something to see in the winter as well, knee-deep in slush and ready for Donner Pass. The Music Hall somehow signifies to the rest of the nation the epicenter of Manhattan show business. Most...
While fully affirming your responsibility to report on all significant social and commercial phenomena on the American scene, I find distressing your glorification of base sensuality as personified by Hugh Marston Hefner, editor and publisher of Playboy Magazine...