Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Hume, a well-grounded student of music, had come to the widely shared conclusion that Margaret just "cannot sing very well." He wrote: "Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality. She is extremely attractive on the stage. Yet . . . there are few moments during her recital when one can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, which is the end of the song...
Rare is the author who makes an accurate appraisal of personal work, even by accident, but then Novelist Keyes is something of a phenomenon. The happy quip in the publishing world is that she learned to type on a cash register, that hardly anybody can match her at striking the $3 key. With her last ten novels (including The River Road, Came a Cavalier, Dinner at Antoine's), Novelist Keyes has rung up sales of more than 5,000,000 copies, and with her latest she is going to play again the kind of fiscal jingle bells that publishers...
...This phenomenon has had almost as strong an effect on the self-made cowboy as it has on his juvenile admirers. Boyd-who, at 55, is an erect, ruddy man with a direct gaze, a quick smile, and a surprising air of authority and command-now has an almost evangelistic attitude about his success. He discusses himself in the third person-as "Hoppy" or "this character"-and seems to feel that he has retapped the same deep vein of American character which made the Old West, and that it is both his fate and his duty to strengthen the fiber...
...disappearance of the receding galaxies is a similar phenomenon and just as remarkable, in their view. Where the galaxies go, if "anywhere," they do not know. When they reach the speed of light with the stretching of space, they "just disappear." The mass of those that go "over the edge" of perception equals exactly the mass of the newly created hydrogen. In the same way, the water spilling out of a full tank equals the new water entering...
...mine, I do not want this title to be too definite a description or definition of the picture. The title should merely support what is visually expressed. The origin of the design which you see on the wall now and of a series of similar recent paintings was the phenomenon of plant growth in spring. The mysterious appearance of plant forms and flowers in a new green world. A process that can be registered only in time intervals and for which we have no true understanding. For which, though, we may have a feeling, as for all life processes...