Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mounting Distrust. The break has been swift and thorough. Only a year ago last January the Knight papers ran a glowing verdict by Jack Knight himself on Ike's first term. Wrote he: "The political phenomenon of our times is the almost childlike faith of the people in Eisenhower. One seldom hears a businessman teeing off on Ike for doing the very things that caused him to cuss out Roosevelt and Truman as 'Socialists.' The answer must be that our businessmen have changed with the times in terms of social attitudes and are glad the program...
...humble as Billy Graham is," the Century answers itself, "his plans and his methods show no faith in the caprice of the Holy Spirit . . . There is something horrifying in this monstrous juggernaut rolling over every sensitivity to its sure triumph . . . The most worrisome aspect of the whole Graham phenomenon, perhaps, has been the failure of nerve in men who know better, the atrophy of critical faculties. Worst of all has been the drive to smother opposition, to engulf critics, to surround criticism. In the good name of unity, Billy and his friends have pressed for a dangerously anti-Protestant uniformity...
...limited in our description of any phenomenon by our very civilization, by tradition, and by words which are conditional and limited, J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 told a Sanders Theatre audience yesterday in the fourth talk of a series entitled "The Hope of Order." The atomic scientist said that we must continually search for descriptions which encompass and transcend the descriptions of the past...
Carolina's squad of talented Yankees (TIME, Jan. 7) boasted a 31-consecutive-game winning streak. Kansas, beaten only once all season, had that 7-ft. Philadelphia phenomenon, Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain. The meeting was sure to make a superlative game for the sellout crowd...
Coach Bill McCurdy is as much at a loss to explain this phenomenon as anyone. He compared his team to the "Little Engine That Could." They believed that they were the best team in the league and could lick any other team on any specified afternoon. They were almost cocky," he explained with understandable pride...