Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MICHELANGELO complained about noise and marble dust in our profession," says Sculptor David Smith, "but I finish the day looking like a grease monkey." Sculptor Smith's complaint reflects the rise of a new phenomenon in the art world: a flood of wire and metal shapes that is turning many a sculptor's studio into something resembling a blacksmith's shop, where the oxyacetylene torch has replaced the hammer and chisel, a welder's mask the smock...
Edith returned to Breslau fired by a desire to discover the truth, beside which, she said, everything else was philosophical kindergarten. She began to investigate the "phenomenon" of the Catholic Church. Alone one night at a friend's farm, she picked up the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila, read all night until she had finished it. "This," she said, "is the truth." She was baptized on New Year's Day, 1922, after she proved that she knew Catholic doctrine so well that no formal instruction was necessary...
Leader of the U.S. A large part of the new U.S. mood is the enormous confidence of the American people in the President. The phenomenon was given sharp illustration last week as Mr. Eisenhower toured through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, meeting the people, eating barbecued chicken, fishing in New England streams, and being plied with gifts of heifers, chickens, trees, shirts, boots, a red knit cap, a chain saw and a sculptured tablet of granite. As he moved through dairy country, where his Administration's farm program had sharply cut federal subsidies, farmers stood by the roadside...
...sight of the newly arrived American tourist rushing to Paris' Louvre or Florence's Uffizi is as familiar as Mona Lisa's smile. A far more recent phenomenon is the ceremonial trip to U.S. museums. So much topflight art has funneled into U.S. collections in recent years that today a tour of major U.S. museums has become a must on the agenda of many a foreign visitor, including Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth. Japan's ex-Premier Yoshida. Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab. Arriving in Washington on state business. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
Smoking certainly cuts down the blood flow in the capillaries of the extremities-the familiar effect of cooling the fingers. This same phenomenon can be deadly in victims of thromboangiitis obliterans (or Buerger's disease, from which the late King George VI suffered). Their limb-tip blood flow is already reduced so that they are subject to gangrene, and it is in this connection that the strength of the smoking habit is most clearly seen. Writes Cornell University's Professor Irving S. Wright: "We have seen patients . . . continue to smoke even though they suffered agonizing pain from gangrene...