Word: phenomenons
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...place in The Crimson and we hope and believe we can stand being poked fun at, when it is deserved. Yet some of the correspondence on Bloom County transcended humor, or even snideness. People seemed concerned more than anything to use The Crimson as a punching bag--a phenomenon that has not gone unnoticed in the past. One gentleman commented that "no one gives a damn what the Crimson's policies are," an indication of the slightly schizophrenic light in which the paper is seen: the people who say "nobody gives a damn" are the same ones who take...
...people cheer? Why did a television station send cameras to film a man commiting suicide at all? There is no psychological commentary to explain the phenomenon we are exposed to every time we turn on local television news or read tabloid newspapers--the desire to get a little entertainment our of somebody else's tragedy. What explains banner headlines about parents killing their children? What explains the fact that whenever there is a shooting or a serious traffic accident the camera van from a television station often arrives before an ambulance...
Colonel Blake's sad departure, Trapper's hasty exit and Radar's return to Otumwa, Iowa prompted mourning and drunken reflection from avid viewers nationwide. M*A*S*H's final episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode partiers in saying farewell...
West Germans refer to the broader phenomenon as the "alternative movement." Its numbers are estimated at between 4 million and 5 million, much larger than the 1.5 million to 2 million adherents of the Green Party itself. Thriving all over the country, the alternatives include squatters and punkers, doctors and lawyers, engineers and social workers, who have organized hundreds of communes in which they are attempting to define, as one of them puts it, "a culture alongside the traditional, confining German society." Joseph Huber, 34, a lecturer at Berlin's Free University and a philosopher of the alternative scene...
Change comes quietly to the School of Dental Medicine, the smallest of Harvard's 10 graduate schools, and indeed the smallest of the nation's 60 dental schools (current enrollment is 80). But behind the phenomenon of this year's missing class is an innovative shift in thinking about the role dentists should play in society...