Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...footnote reference to my book on Professor Toynbee's A Study oj History makes it appear that I am angry with Toynbee because his ''vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as 'fossilized relics' fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival." This misrepresents me. I am angry with Toynbee because I believe (and think I have proved in my book) that his views on Judaism and the Jewish people are heavily tinctured with antiSemitism. His scholarship in the Jewish and some other fields does hot move me to anger...
...latest phenomenon in U.S. magazine publishing is Playboy, an oversexed young version of the 23-year-old Esquire. Last week, not yet three years old but selling 688,000 copies, the slick and sassy 50? monthly threatened to outstrip Esquire (circ. 778,000) in a circulation fight. Playboy has also spawned a litter of its own imitators, e.g., Playgirl (which it is suing for too close an imitation), Nugget, Rogue, U.S. Male...
...Presley, sideburns dripping with sweat and goose grease, mumbled through three songs, gave his guitar a thorough clouting, contorted his mouth suggestively and his pelvis more so. When it was over, parents and critics, as usual, did a lot of futile grumbling at the vulgarity of this strange new phenomenon that must somehow be reckoned with...
...scholarship-on Judaism are the subject of an angry attack by noted Jewish Author Maurice Samuel (The Professor and the Fossil, Knopf; $4), who believes that Toynbee's vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as "fossilized relics" fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival...
...Million Volley. The phenomenon of Dean magazines, now selling well into their second million, is part of a large one: the "one-shot" magazine, i.e., a deliberate publishing flash in the pan devoted to a single subject. Together, growing steadily since World War II, the one-shotters add up to a circulation volley that now hits more than 20 million a year...