Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incident was no isolated phenomenon, and illustrated what is shaping up as a comeback of Trumanesque proportions. Just two months ago, Lindsay's re-election chances were being written off as almost hopeless. Reviled in much of his own city, the target of a middle-class revolt that had anti-Negro undertones, rejected in the Republican Party primary, the ambitious, activist mayor seemed almost destined to lose. Waiting to restore Democratic rule was bumptious, volatile Comptroller Mario Procaccino, who proclaimed himself the champion of the "average man" (TIME cover...
...Bread-a phenomenon which has become so common to all of us is often taken for granted...
...this vulnerable phenomenon, hardly a culture is the only revolutionary movement that is undermining the technocracy today. To identify the intellectual and mystical heritage from which it must continue to draw strength, Roszak takes us on a critical tour of what he calls
...HEAVEN, NEW EARTH by Kenelm Burridge. 191 pages. Schocken Books. $5.50. The vision of the millennium as a golden age of freedom and affluence is a quasi-religious phenomenon that occurs in decaying cultures. In examining a number of millenary movements among primitive peoples, Anthropologist Burridge observes a quaint custom of the behavioral sciences by elaborating the obvious, painfully...
...WERE THE CAMPAIGN by Ben Sfavis. 206 pages. Beacon. $7.50 (paper, $2.95). A graduate student turned activist provides a nuts-and-bolts report on the other half of the McCarthy phenomenon, the get-clean-for-'Gene "children's crusade...