Word: phenomena
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...serious students, who will naturally have seen it several times, suffice it to say that careful restudy always holds considerable rewards; for the casual dabbler Shane offers an unparalleled opportunity to gain a better understanding of many of the most important cultural phenomena of our times...
When 150 virologists and public-health experts met in Philadelphia last week to swap shoptalk on the eastern equine encephalitis that flared in southern New Jersey last fall (TIME, Oct. 5), the conference chairman himself was the rarest of medical phenomena: a survivor of the deadly disease who had escaped brain damage...
...would deny that Cambridge politics are unusual, and it is one of its oddest phenomena that the local form of government apparently discourages the entrance of issues in a rountine campaign. If there is a scandal, as at the 1957 elections, that can become an important issue; but in a quiet year, few candidates are heard debating each other on the relative merits of their positions...
...life caring for a sick mother whom she hated. Now Mama has died, Eleanor is living with a dull married sister, and her experience of life is a dreary vacuum. It is almost like liberation when Dr. Montague takes her on as one of three assistants to check psychic phenomena at a haunted house in a grubby small town. Author Jackson, a self-confessed dabbler in magic, sets her scene with professional care. The big old house is a crazily built warren of odd rooms and twisting corridors. For 80 years it has witnessed a variety of human disasters...
...atheist who both say more than they could possibly know. This is reflected in the factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena" is the reason given more than any other, and of the three factors vying for second place, two are equally epistemic, "philosophical considerations, such as logical refutations of theoretical proofs of the existence of God" and "the irreconcilability of a literal interpretation of the Bible with certain established scientific truths, such...