Word: phenomenons
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Call it the Sleepless in Seattle phenomenon. When screenwriters want to create a really sympathetic man, an unequivocal good guy or just the ultimate romantic lead, they make him a widower, as Tom Hanks was in that 1994 film: no complicated sexual history, no fear of commitment, no ugly divorce to sully viewers' affection for him. (Widows, on the other hand, tend to be women who have suspiciously outlived their husbands, like Kathy Bates in Dolores Claiborne.) Below, the types of widowers in recent movies...
Steiner-Adair said she considers eating disorders to be as much of a cultural phenomenon as a psychological or genetic one. In the course of her studies, she said she noticed that girls who are among the first to enter traditionally all-male schools or professions, the "front-line soldiers," were at the highest risk of developing an eating disorder...
Apathy among Harvard students is the subject of much hand-wringing, especially on this page. And though there have been many substantive discussions of the baneful effects of this phenomenon (the best example being perhaps Ethan M. Tucker's editorial this fall), no one has yet taken Harvard students to task for one of their most pernicious and pervasive failings: a disgraceful ignorance of politics, social debate, and current national and international affairs--in short, the news...
WINDHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Rushing to be the first to candidate this year to stake out an environmental position first claimed by Ronald Reagan, multimillionaire publisher and GOP presidential hopeful Steve Forbes opined that a lot of the acid rain falling on New England is a natural phenomenon. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Forbes said "It turns out a lot of it is created by nature, not by smokestacks." Asked if he remembered President Reagan's 1980 assertion that trees are a source of deadly pollution, Forbes advised restraint. "I'm not sure about trees, but I do know...
Though relatively harmless, there is something disturbing about these little adventures in New Age shamanism. They are symptomatic of a more general and potentially ominous recent phenomenon: a flight toward irrationality, a retreat to prescientific primitivism in an age that otherwise preens with scientific pride...