Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was going on was an unparalleled historic phenomenon which some in Britain, greatest of the West's colonial powers, like to call "creative abdication"'(to the unconcealed horror of diehard imperialists, who see only retreat). In places where British governments and proconsuls had bungled, "creative abdication" was a euphemism for a hasty cutting of losses. But in other places it represented a conscientious attempt to surrender an outdated authority to win a new relationship more valued because it was volunteered. One way or another in the twelve years since World War II-years during which Russia enslaved...
Back to the 19th Century? The Congregationalist president of Amherst College, Charles Woolsey Cole, takes a more hopeful view of the phenomenon-at least at college level. In Harper's he writes: "Youth at present is almost completely monogamous in a thoroughly established fashion, and it is aggressively sure that its customs and ways are right...
...vote of thanks to Charles Wilson, not alone for what he has accomplished as Secretary of Defense, but even more for what he has tried to do in his blunt, honest way to cut through the muddled poli-thinking of Government today. Poli-thinking is a political phenomenon resulting from men having both ears to the ground-a position which naturally prevents keeping one eye on the future. If the National Guard, Air Force, Army, Marines or Navy are not prepared to fulfill their defense missions, it is his job to tell Congress. Too bad there aren't more...
Worried Neighbor. Across the eastern border the Russians are watching this strange sight uneasily. The mixed economy is not a new phenomenon, but an expedient, in Soviet politics. In 1921 Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) tolerated private enterprise, but when Stalin thought the economy was sufficiently on its feet again, he ruthlessly liquidated every vestige of free enterprise. In Red China today, Party Leader Mao Tse-tung tolerates a controlled capitalism for the same purpose...
Occultist Wiesinger recognizes the possibility of the phenomenon known as "possession," though it is extremely difficult to distinguish from some forms of mental illness such as schizophrenia. He cites as "borderline" the case of Maria Talarico in the town of Catanzaro in southern Italy...