Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criticize, nor do they seem any more susceptible than their parents to blind acceptance of dogma. As a matter of fact, says Kaare Roald Bergethon, dean of the college at Brown University, the students seem so tolerant of the beliefs of others that "if I had seen this same phenomenon in the '30s, I would have thought it was indifference, but today I know it isn't." This tolerance has meant that old gods have not been dethroned; they have merely been demoted. "Science students," says Goucher's Director of Religious Activities, Walter Morris, "have come...
Americans have learned to accept, if not quite to understand, the strange delirium that takes place when a frail-looking crooner confronts a crowd of bobby-soxers. But to an English critic, the phenomenon still takes getting used to. Drama Critic J. B. Boothroyd covered the performance of U.S. Crooner Johnnie ("Cry") Ray at London's famed old Hippodrome and wrote the following clinical report im Punch...
...matter how this phenomenon is interpreted, however, I say: let us be done with the slaughter of America's feeble-minded youth. I say: let us be done with this bloody destruction of brawny sheep who might be drafted into the armed services better to serve their ideals and their self-destructive tendencies, and as the same time to protect us who subject our minds to the long, endless study of life as it is lived by the truly brave and understanding...
...topping the endurance record of even durable Howdy Doody (2,080 hours). In the years of Garroway's climb, the medium which now carries his placating gestures into 1,800,000 homes each day, has grown from a timid experiment, originating largely in Chicago, to a giant phenomenon dominating U.S. living rooms from coast to coast. Last week, perhaps in deference to its veteran, the whole industry seemed as relaxed as Garroway...
...human soul immortal? Is Christianity just a passing fad? Is Freud God? Assistant Professor Alston of the University of Michigan will not answer these questions in "Philosphy 190," but he will examine some of the ways in which the phenomenon of religious belief can be interpreted. St. Thomas Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Santayana, and Freud had various views on this topic, and the ideas will all come out in Emerson...