Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ecology of Broadway demands megahits, the kind of supercharged shows that most ordinary playgoers have to wait months to see. Cats qualifies. To a great extent, this musical is a phenomenon, a process not substantially different from unveiling a new car model or marketing a more dazzling toothpaste...
Ellen Porter Hornet, assistant senior tutor in Lowell House, said paint is already peeling in her room, a common phenomenon that many feel is indicative of the hectic pace at which work was conducted this summer...
Helene von Damm, for several weeks now, has been in search of the great exodus. It is proving elusive. Not a bird or a plane, the great exodus is a phenomenon whose advent is confidently predicted by journalists every two years: the mass departure of political appointees from the Federal Government. Once in a while the journalists are correct. Lack of money, 18-hour days, media prying and policy failures send droves of discouraged reformers back to the family business...
Alan Brinkley, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History and a new arrival from MIT, offers an explanation for the phenomenon in Harvard's stellar array of lecturers. Many students undoubtedly choose Harvard because of its renowned faculty. And once here they find a simple correlation: "Usually the famous lecturers are good lecturers," observes Lloyd Gruber '86, who sat in on as many classes as he could during his first shopping period...
Most likely the habit of applauding is responsible for another phenomenon peculiar to Harvard hissing. This one, Thernstrom reflects gives proceedings "a slight element of spice." While most professors share Thernstrom's benevolent acceptance of good natured hissing. "If one tells a bad pun, one deserves to be hissed," John L. Clive, Kenan Professor of History and Literature asserts many students feel hissing has no place in the lecture hall. "It's very disruptive," says Tracy Rouse. "Students hiss down questions if they don't like them like this morning in Chem...