Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From an experiment, Princeton's unique club system has passed through the stages of phenomena and faddish, and now must prove itself an asset to the college as well as institution...
Adenauer belongs in the ranks of Europe's Christian Democratic politicians, whose emergence to leadership in the West is one of the Continent's striking postwar phenomena. His Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), together with its political counterparts in Italy, France, Belgium and The Netherlands, may well prove to be the force to stem the assault of Communism and to bring about Europe's regeneration. He states his political credo simply: "Germany can be reconstructed on a sound basis only if she declares herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands...
...absolute zero: -273.16 centigrade. At this temperature, the haphazard motion of the molecules (the action called heat) is wholly stilled. Close to this point of death-still cold, matter acts in strange ways. Liquid helium climbs out of containers; the electrical resistance of metals disappears. Because scientists see stranger phenomena the closer they get to absolute zero, experimenters like to imagine working their way down to the very bottom of the temperature scale...
...both cases, adjectives a size or two smaller might have proved a far better fit; or a distinction should have been made between the production and the show. For even more dazzling phenomena than Salesman and South Pacific themselves were the men who staged them: Elia Kazan and Joshua Logan. Director Logan, with an unbroken string of hits (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Mister Roberts, South Pacific) was easily Broadway's cleverest theater mind; Director Kazan, with three successive Critics' Circle awards (All My Sons, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman) stood...
...Shakespeare and Italy's Dante. An ardent sideline scientist (he discovered that the intermaxillary bone in apes was also present in a rudimentary form in man, and developed a new theory regarding the nature of colors), he took special delight in noting the similarities that related phenomena of the most diverse kinds. When his son, August, showed no particular interest in a literary life, Goethe was no more upset than he had been by the strange ways of mistress Christiane. "In the last analysis," he said, "all sane and sensible things coincide...