Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Festering Wound. "Liberty . . . is something more than a political phenomenon, as tyrannical dictatorship contends; it is more than an economic phenomenon, as some disciples of free enterprise maintain. It is something more mature than that dream of rights without responsibilities which historic liberalism envisioned; it is certainly different from that terrorism of responsibilities without rights which Communism imposes. It is something wiser than free thought, and something freer than dictated thought. For freedom has its roots in man's spiritual nature. It does not arise out of any social organization, or any constitution, or any part...
Actually, a spate of recession predictions has been a recurring phenomenon of the great boom. Time and again, economists have predicted that business would turn downward, usually in "about six months." But as the "six months" stretched into years with no drop, economists became more cautious. They now predict a decline in such indefinite terms that they can't be wrong. Only the future will determine whether the U.S. is now undergoing a "rolling readjustment" or "recession," or merely passing once again through a period of "Whatchamacallit," i.e., a troubled economic period which gives rise to all manner...
...Driberg's own squeamishness about Rhee, Chiang, et al. and his robust digestion for Communist cruelty is an odd phenomenon of the times. We, in the U.S., have had many exponents of this political and moral double-vision and double-dealing, but thank God, few ever got elected to Congress . . . PETER S. WILKINSON Brooklyn...
...authors, turning from the question of whether a professor should teach as he pleases, examine also that phenomenon of college life, the aging athlete. Pirie MacDonald Tutchings gives a good overall performance in the part, but his Joe Ferguson becomes too introspective in later scenes. He blusters well in act one, but later in the play when Ferguson tones down, even reforms a bit, Tutchings destroys the unthinking, impulsive protrayal so necessary to the play...
...from bankruptcy and scared most cine-moguls out of their ulcers, began its second year last week. Cinerama celebrated its birthday playing to capacity crowds in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles. It had not only grossed a phenomenal $4,300,000 but had also become a social phenomenon. Travel bureaus this summer were flooded with requests from people who wanted to see the original of what they saw in Cinerama: the Grand Canyon, the canals of Venice, the bull rings of Spain. Even the roller coaster at New York's Rockaway Playland-the opening attraction in Cinerama...