Word: phenomenons
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Falwell sees Reagan as both a cause and an effect of the conservative moral movement. "The country is moving politically to the right, and Ronald Reagan is a product of that phenomenon. He has been produced by it and has contributed to it." Reagan marches to his own drummer, but he also manages to be in step with the parade. "The trick," says Deputy White House Chief of Staff Dennis Thomas, "is to be far enough ahead to be a leader, but not so far that you're out of touch...
...commitment to electronic literature beg to differ. Newman Communications Corp., one of the fastest-growing tape publishers in the U.S., began in 1981 with sales of less than $200,000, which leaped to more than $7 million three years later. "We're not dealing with a Hula-Hoop phenomenon," says its president, Harold J. Newman. "The underlying base of the business continues to grow every year, and bookstores continue to dedicate more space to books on cassette." Another successful producer, Listen for Pleasure, also refuses to heed the Cassandras. "At first no one understood what we were selling," says Vice...
...antigay backlash is for the most part a peculiarly American phenomenon. Britain, West Germany and the Scandinavian countries repealed antihomosexual laws years ago, and France and Japan never had any. There has been no discernible change in attitudes since AIDS came to public attention. Homosexuality is illegal throughout the Islamic world and in the Soviet Union and India, but even there, legal punishment is infrequent. It is more common in Latin America, where gays sometimes face extralegal violence as well. An extreme example: self-appointed vigilantes have gunned down 65 suspected homosexuals on the streets of Cali, Colombia...
Reagan has become a fascinating phenomenon of American leadership and psychology. He enjoys an easy and sometimes mysterious communion with the American people. He has become a ceremonial presence. "America is back," he told us, as if announcing the return of a loved one from years in a POW camp. He gives America heroes--heroes in the gallery when he delivers a State of the Union address, heroes from the Olympics, heroes from old movies, John Wayne and Gary Cooper quotations in the middle of political speeches. His amiable being--the sheer niceness and normality of the man--seems...
Perhaps non-Anglo-Saxon immigration is too recent a phenomenon to transform Harvard substantially, one of the most ancient institutions in the United States. But that doesn't mean schools like Harvard should be avoided, rather there should be constant pressure on them to change. Pressure that we sometimes forget to apply just as we forget our fleeting ethnic heritages...