Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real experience made it possible for the disciples to apply the known symbol of resurrection to Jesus." What was that experience? A kind of psychological phenomenon, "an ecstatic experience" of the New Being "indissolubly united" with the concrete picture of Jesus of Nazareth. "This event happened first to some of his followers who had fled to Galilee in the hours of his execution; then to many others; then to Paul; then to all those who in every period experience his living presence here...
Henry the Heretic. What Miller expects his adult readers to swallow could choke a racing camel. Still, the book is a document as well as a preposterous anecdote because it gives a picture (sometimes unconscious) of a recurrent American phenomenon-the Utopian colony. Those at Harmony, Pa. or Oneida, N.Y. were founded by followers of deviate religious sects. These new California sectaries around Miller are no exception. Miller, who rivals Dr. Norman Vincent Peale for thin theology, is preaching a doctrine known along Madison Avenue as togetherness. "The ideal community, in a sense, would be the loose, fluid aggregation...
Folks for some time now have been aware of a phenomenon in Western thought known as laissez-faire thinking. Its latest expression has come in Eisenhower's Geneva Conference proposal for "open skies." With the true homely-phrase-making genius of the American politician, the President presented the world with an appealing slogan. "Open skies" sounded like a Good Thing, because Americans are good at free competition so long as it is clean and "open." "Open skies" called to mind Woodrow Wilson, fair play, and possibly even Blue Skies. It was, in short, a note of hope. Perhaps it still...
WHATEVER happened to the big brassy nightclub? It is fast disappearing, together with its chorus lines, revolving lights, oppressive waiters and stiff cover charges. Taking its place, for better or for worse, is a new phenomenon of American night life. See Music, Rise of the Music Room...
Crumbs from the Table. Picasso has been called "a volcano in constant eruption," and his continued volcanic - and unpredictable - activity has made him a phenomenon almost unique in the history of art. No other artist has ever commanded so wide a fame in his own lifetime. His name is almost a synonym for modern art. His works have set off debates in Levittown living rooms, rocked the cafes of Montmartre, built up pressures in Moscow. If a friend in need asks for help, Picasso can manufacture money simply by sketching a few lines on the back of a menu...