Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only four months ago he was an outsider, disliked as an intellectual and a heckler, attacked by bigots as a Jew and by fellow politicians for his unabashed ambition. Last week, a phenomenon of 47, he was able...
...Something is being seen," said Jung. "What is seen may be, in the case of a single observer, a subjective vision (hallucination). In the case of several or many observers, it may be a collective vision. Such a psychic phenomenon . . . could be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to the present conscious situation: the fear of an apparently insoluble political situation in the world ... At such times eyes turn heavenwards . . . and miraculous forebodings of a threatening or consoling nature appear from on high...
...Should the origin of the phenomenon turn out to be an extraterrestrial one," said Dr. Jung, "it would prove an intelligent interplanetary link. The impact of such a fact on humanity is unforeseeable. But, without doubt, we would be placed in the very questionable position of today's primitive societies that clash with the superior cultures of the white race. All initiative would be wrested from us. As an old witch doctor once said to me, with tears in his eyes: We would 'have no more dreams...
...POETS and critics of approved standing now function as teachers in colleges and universities throughout the land, and 'the summer writing conference' has rapidly developed into an educational phenomenon . . . There is no doubt that the stiffening mark of writing learned by rule . . . has begun to show up in the work of young men and women who, in the United States, have passed through English Departments. A kind of graduate-school poetry has come into being: well written, beautifully organized, and nicely centred at some 'norm' of excellence, but at the same time, dead, dry and without...
Reporting what he called a "hair-raising phenomenon" to the British Medical Journal, Dr. Kelvin simply passed on one ex-baldhead's "feasible suggestion that the hirsutic embellishment is due to the tablets' improving the circulation of the scalp by their vasodilating [artery-widening] action." He offered no theory of his own. Instead, he added lamely: "I confess that I have not yet personally tried the tablets to cure my own baldness...