Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sports fandom is a curious cultural phenomenon. Players, coaches, and even cities, come and go, but many sports fans continue to follow the same teams...
...intrigued by these incidences and the phenomenon that they exhibit. Is competitive drive a trait that inherently cannot be selectively applied? Is it impossible to rein in our classroom instincts? I do not believe so. Rather, Harvard students seem to have made a collective choice. We view it as safer to maintain a cut-throat edge at all times and so we have permanently locked ourselves into a defensive posture. Lowering our guard might mean certain death, or worse, a lower slot on the curve...
...leveling of social distinctions that Price Club facilitates represents a major sociological phenomenon that extends past Price Club into other areas of consumer purchases. In my area-the suburbs of Washington, DC-bargain stores aimed at people who want high-quality goods are experiencing a boom...
...children of the clinical age, and the ADD phenomenon is a very concrete and democratic example of this fact. While the shrink and the quack are psychiatric types confined to a certain cross-section of society--types that have been vigorously caricatured in Hollywood movies--no one is making light of ADD, a phenomenon which directly affects far more people from all walks of life...
Working to get to the bottom of the sorority phenomenon, I'm corrected by Hughes when I characterize Delta Gamma as an extracurricular activity. She frames it instead as a kind of "support group" and argues that it "provides a social outlet that Harvard doesn't." I press her about the corrosive effects of the sorority lifestyle on the community, and she concedes that it comes with its share of problems. In a perfect world sororities wouldn't be necessary, she acknowledges, but in an environment like Harvard's, "Many 19 and 20-year-olds want something to belong...