Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jung has transformed Freud's unconscious into a religious edifice while simultaneously reducing religion to a psychological phenomenon. Basically he is a religious philosopher and epistemologist...
...Subcommittee, Dr. John C. Bugher, chief of the Atomic Energy Commission's Biological and Medical Division, made a statement that chilled the Senators. "A possible delayed effect of radiation exposure," he said, ". . . is a statistical shortening of life expectancy." Such "radiation senility" has been demonstrated with animals. "This phenomenon does not result from any specific cause of death, but apparently from a general acceleration of the aging process. Whether this factor can be recognized in a human population is as yet unknown...
French Author-Critic André Malraux believes that the camera and modern reproduction techniques have revolutionized the art world by bringing art out of the museum. He calls this phenomenon the "Museum Without Walls." Something like it is happening with music: the U.S. musical revolution is taking place in the Concert Hall Without Walls...
...bill. Then from the far right of the Chamber rose Calvinist Cornelius N. Van Dis. "The word of God specifically teaches us that the wages of sin is death," he said. "If one proceeds, however, from the materialistic standpoint that death from the very beginning has been a normal phenomenon, belonging to human nature . . . then it is completely in line with this belief that body-burning is preferred to burial. Body-burning is a purely pagan practice, contrary to Christian usage...
Later, on shore, we discussed this phenomenon. After consulting local authorities, the Captain and I decided that the island was a Guatemalan Dragger-crunch, which appears only when all the world's children under the age of six have brushed their teeth three times...