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Word: phenomenons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warnod: "It is amazing to see the prescience which seems to govern all these pictures, still lifes as well as landscapes." Said Les Nouvelles Litteraires: ". . . Prodigious. [The] designs show authority and the palette is astonishingly rich." Said the weekly Carrefour: "Our theorists will find it difficult to explain this phenomenon." The phenomenon was Artist Thierry Vaubourgoin, a bright-eyed, straw-haired youngster of eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Lion | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...Drive-in theaters, once strictly a summer phenomenon, are doing year-round business in 14 U.S. cities, defying snow and freezing temperatures. The drive-ins keep their customers cozy by providing, for an extra 25?, a portable electric fan-forced heater for the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...allowed to grow, this new phenomenon could transform the historic character of Germany and give it a new role in the family of nations. The conflicting forces within the German people might be resolved. West Germany's economy does not need an armaments industry to prosper, and its standard of living is already on the upgrade. Non-militarized, the Germans could be a living example of a people who coveted, sinned, were punished, repented, and found fulfillment in living without weapons. Militarized, they may not become warmongers, but they will be precluded from playing that distinctive old. The tragedy...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin ., | Title: The Tragedy of German Rearmament | 1/27/1955 | See Source »

...phenomenon is dawning," said

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Left? | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

According to him, no one was to blame for what happened in Germany. It just happened, and no one was responsible but "the times." Nazism was pretty much like anything else: "Perhaps all that can be done is to describe it as a phenomenon, as a byproduct of life, and like life to be immeasurable by any standard and equally shapeless." As for democracy, "I do not know what it is ... But I fear that Hit ler's assertion - that his ideological concept was the democratic concept - will prove a hard one to refute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Just Happened | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

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