Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tremendous growth of the Cambridge Center is part of a phenomenon by no means restricted to Brattle Street. In the Boston area, and all over the country, such programs have multiplied to a point where almost every respectable college, high school, museum, or church provides some form of adult education. For the most part, the newer centers are to some extent publicly supported...
Last time we went to the U.T., Hitchcock and Harry and we had considerable trouble. If, this time, The Harder They Fall must fall, and fall it must, one can explain the phenomenon by saying there isn't too much to say that it doesn't say better itself. No viscous chestnut, The Harder They Fall pulls no punches in exposing the fight racket. Bogie gleefully battles out the old question of free will versus determinism in this thriller with metaphysical aspirations. The death of a boxer is seen as a boxer would see it. Any Bogie film is good...
...school year, I can feel only pity for the muddleheaded burghers who fired him. Dismal, hopeless mediocrity is the most serious menace to present-day primary and secondary education in America. There is no room in Riceville for originality, no tolerance there of intellectual inquiry. If this sordid phenomenon were limited solely to Riceville, Iowa, Americans would have small cause for worry; unfortunately, it is not. The real reason Paul was dismissed is that his students were beginning to think for themselves-not just during classtime, but after school as well. JAMES H. RANSOM Stanford, Calif...
Coach Bill Leavitt is at a loss to explain this phenomenon, but he has had no difficulty spotting its effects. "The boys are still learning what its all about," he said yesterday as he came in from a chilly afternoon's workout. "We've had only a few time trials and are just starting to find out what this crew is like...
...Party" Press. Graham's Post is part of a larger Washington press phenomenon. Some Democratic politicians among them Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson, have often charged that the U.S. has a "one party," i.e., Republican, press. But if the owners and publishers of U.S. newspapers constitute a force for the G.O.P., there is another more effective ''one party" Democratic press: the Washington press corps. An estimated 85% of the correspondents in the capital, conditioned in the Depression and under the New Deal, have political reflexes that respond favorably to Democrats, unfavorably to Republicans. They strengthen their reflexes...