Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This hubbub in the heartland, yet another sign that the sports phenomenon known as the senior tour has become a fixture on the American scene, reflects a larger social trend: the greater acceptance of older people performing well--indeed, excellently--in a variety of pursuits. In golf, and more recently in tennis, players who quickened the pulse of sports fans a few decades ago--Palmer, Nicklaus and Trevino, for example, and Connors, McEnroe and Borg--are back on the courses and courts, and back in the news, striving in spirited competition with their peers...
...Spanish golf pro and a woman who worked in the clubhouse shop, Sergio was, only five months ago, an unknown amateur. Now, after a sensational summer campaign in Europe and a thrilling debut at the PGA Championship, he is an idol at home and a phenomenon worldwide. "I just want to play golf and enjoy myself," he says. "I know if I play well, I'll have enough money, so I don't really care about that." He prefers to be known, soccer-like, by one name, Sergio. "I love this kid," says Ben Crenshaw, U.S. Ryder Cup team captain...
...growing ability to master the universe has opened a new window into the human soul. Science and metaphysics, the secular and the sacred, have begun to merge. As science comes face to face with infinity--as it is forced to do by Einstein's theories--it deals with a phenomenon it can barely describe and has yet proved unable to explain...
...what about sophomores? Are they not equally guilty of the dress up phenomenon...
...While the focus is on Boston area graffiti, graffiti is not a unique phenomenon in each city; many of the activities and concerns of writers around the world are very similar. Today's urban graffiti has its roots in the New York of the early '70s. It is a worldwide phenomenon, visible in almost any city or town, with new styles and movements developing and spreading out of the cities...