Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bridey Murphy has faded away into the thin air that produced her, but a weird new phenomenon is loose in the land; a teen-age craze for a boyish Hollywood actor named James Dean, who has been dead for eleven months. Barely a celebrity when he was killed in a sports-car crackup, Dean last week was haunting U.S. newsstands, which are plastered with four fast-selling magazines devoted wholly to him, e.g., Jimmy Dean Returns! ("Read his own words from the beyond!"). The actor is also a current "must" in every movie magazine, while three national magazines...
...Eisenhower Administration, which has acted swiftly and boldly to counteract inflationary pressures in the past, was keeping a close eye on the market place last week. Government economists pointed out that price increases for competitive consumer goods, a natural phenomenon in a humming economy, tend to check inflationary tendencies. Moreover, the increase in U.S. productivity is keeping pace with the boom. At week's end, however, the Federal Reserve Board was reported ready to raise the rediscount rate, for the sixth time in 17 months, to a uniform 3%. The aim: to ease down on the boom before...
That quadrennial phenomenon known to the politically-minded at the National Nominating Convention, and to the television observer as a circus, stirs many to fond memories. The wide-open blustery conventions of yesteryear are remembered by few, but one Summer School student can conjure up a panorama of past politics via his unusual collection of campaign buttons...
...political party's national convention is like the adult life of a May fly -brief, spectacular and essential to the preservation of the species," the booklet begins. Describing this peculiarly American phenomenon, the booklet reviews the histories of the two major parties, showing with a graphic flow chart how they evolved over the years. It also tells about convention ground rules, the major issues, how platforms are hammered together, and, in some footnotes to U.S. political history, recalls such all-but-forgotten presidential candidates as New York's Democratic Governor Horatio Seymour, who became known...
...Council of Churches and the British Council of Churches. "I am wondering whether the church in America is not frightened by this boom in religion." said Canon Hartley A. Wareham. Vicar of Linthorpe. Middlesbrough. Yorkshire. "The fantastic interest in church building, church attendance and education is a strange, alarming phenomenon about which we must not be cynical. It is difficult for us people of the United Kingdom not to be cynical about it ... Each of us has much to learn and much to contribute . . . We have things the church in America needs...