Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behind-the-scenes looks at TIME'S own history, beginning with its somewhat shaky 1923 start under Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, when the first issue sold fewer than 9,000 copies. The program goes on to examine the origins of the Man of the Year and the phenomenon of early-years TIME style, with its backward-running sentences and punchy neologisms, like "tycoon" and "socialite," which are now part of everyday English. It even displays some of the cover stories that were canceled because of late-breaking news, such as a Jack Benny cover that was scrapped...
Such a scenario presupposes cooperation among the Western allies, a phenomenon that has been markedly absent from the realm of international relations of late. And it necessitates the acquiescence of the Black ruled states in Africa like Zimbabwe, states that depend on trade with South Africa to such an extent that they may not be able to forego economic relations with Pretoria. Still, policy options being what they are, we shouldn't be afraid to grab at straws in a violent wind. It's possible that the one we latch onto might provide the foundation for real, positive change...
...Olympic Committee. He also visited a dozen sites in and around the city where the athletes will compete. "I was impressed by the complexity of planning an Olympics," he says, "and also by the dedication displayed by those who are putting on the Games. It is a phenomenon that changes people. This was mentioned time and time again by those involved in the Olympic effort: a security planning chief who can't conceive of going back to being a police division commander, the L.A.O.O.C. head of personnel who doesn't want to return to punching a corporation clock...
This incident and four others in recent years have sparked the most systematic inquiry ever made into the legendary voodoo phenomenon of zombiism. According to Haitian belief, a zombie is an individual who has been "killed" and then raised from the dead by malevolent voodoo priests known as "bocors." Though most educated Haitians deny the existence of zombies, Dr. Lamarque Douyon, Canadian-trained head of the Psychiatric Center in Port-au-Prince, has been trying for 25 years to establish the truth about the phenomenon, no easy matter in a land where the line between myth and reality is faintly...
Lecturer in Jewish Studies Erich Goldhagen's course, "Explaining the Holocaust and the Phenomenon of Genocide," was taken out of the Core because "it did not meet the specific guidelines of a Core course," Professor James Q. Wilson, chairman of the committee which recommended the move, said yesterday. "While the course was well taught and a very popular course on the Holocaust, it did not concentrate enough on social theory," Wilson said...