Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basically was doing an inventory of methods of non-violent struggle as they are manifested in an extremely hostile environment," says Christopher Kruegler, associate program director for the Program on Nonviolent sanctions. "There's some irony in the fact that he was studying the phenomenon which ultimately claimed his life...
...Kiss of the Spider Woman, the novel of two mismatched prison inmates that became an Oscar-winning film, Manuel Puig portrayed how enforced intimacy can impel people to enter each other's psyches. Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, explores the same phenomenon. This time the setting is a hospital in Argentina, and the characters who drift into each other's dreamscapes are women -- an old contrary patient, rich and autocratic (Anne Bancroft), and a middle-aged nurse whose outward cheer belies a lifetime of thwarted opportunity and scant satisfaction (Jane Alexander...
This year I have a new perspective on the NIMBY phenomenon. I live in Quincy House, and my bedroom looks directly not the Dewolfe Street construction site, where Harvard Real Estate is building two five-story structures eventually to house University affiliates. Sure, Harvard could use the housing space; but frankly, I'm sick of the noise, and I wish it weren't in my back yard...
Those who took Psychology I may recognize this phenomenon as the mental defense mechanism known as "denial." The facts conflict with their beliefs, therefore the facts do not exist...
...phenomenon confined to the snarls of the lumpen proletariat or the cafe chatter of polite society. Western diplomats in Budapest say some leaders of the opposition Hungarian Democratic Forum have made Glempish noises about the undue influence in the media of "alien forces" -- code words considerably less obscure than "goose merchants...