Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CHAIRMEN SENSED that the Democrats of '86 and '88 and '92 would have to see the "Reagan Phenomenon" as a lesson in the need for neat packaging a keen sense of the symbolic they were probably right. We should be concerned that the Democratic National Committee sees its search for a symbol to replace the familiar donkey as good preparation for the upcomming campaign...
THERE IS SOMETHING wonderful about the new burst of volunteerism described in recent Crimson articles, but there is also something typically Harvardian about the whole phenomenon...
...Dead, it need hardly be said, are a musical phenomenon without parallel in American society. A '60s band that plays to packed houses of kids often half their age, The Dead are more than a musical anomaly. For many fans, they are a way of life...
...agenda of the show is plain, and who could object to it? It is a fund raiser, aimed at drumming up more American support for that collectively unique, financially insecure, historically indispensable phenomenon, the Stately Home. These country houses, once the center of political power in a society where wealth was reckoned in acreage and rent-rolls, make up an endangered species today. Everyone wants to look at them; in 1984 the historic houses of Britain received 45 million visitors. Four out of five were British, which shows a public loyalty to haunts of privilege that Engels might have found...
...semiotician's practiced eye, society's every phenomenon and event is a text inviting interpretation, an opportunity for writing oneself into the margins of the scene as reader-critic-author. Not that the margins are without their privileges. Blonsky observes--as no less than a cataclysm--the recent deaths of Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, whose posthumous presence in the collection reflects how the "death of the authors" has ironically inaugurated a backward-looking era for cultural literacy. At the same time, Blonsky's exclusive salon is also visited by still-vital voices such as Umberto...