Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before 1952, as the Isis noted, the university had grown used to seeing Americans do things in sport. But the invasion of the cultural fields was rather a newer phenomenon. A 27-year-old Brooklynite named Sam Kaner had taken over the Experimental Film Group, and last week his Between Two Worlds was picked as the only amateur 16-mm. film to represent Britain at the August festival in Venice. Meanwhile, the awesome Oxford Union had Illinois' chipper 28-year-old Howard E. Shuman as president, and the new literary editor of the magazine Cherwell was California...
Within three days last week, both Boston and New Haven were treated to a revival of a U.S. college phenomenon which used to occur with seasonal regularity back before World War II cast a sobering influence upon campus life: the spring riot...
...react almost like early settlers anticipating an Indian attack. The director of women's residence halls at Indiana University hopefully set out a barrelful of female undergarments in the hope that males would help themselves and go home quietly. Psychiatrists had a field day attempting to explain the phenomenon. But Zoologist Alfred (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) Kinsey remained calm: "All animals," said he, "play around...
...sponsor Pogoism. If we assume that "the social unsolidarity" of which the CRIMSON speaks is at least partially a good thing, then the growth of a movement, over three thousand strong, which sports Pogo buttons and chants "I go Pogo" on public occasions must be considered a dangerous phenomenon. The importance of Pogoism is not merely as another manifestation of the growth of mass "rah-rah"; it is possible that this movement may be dangerous in its politics as well as in its social implications...
...been theorized on more than one occasion that what sets Harvard off from other colleges for better or worse is the social isolation caused by private bathrooms. "This phenomenon has been held responsible for everything from intellectual superiority to athletic importance, but thanks to the splendidly massive construction of the Houses nobody has ever tried to do anything about the situation...