Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more of their matter in the process of maturation than had hitherto been thought: as much as the mass of the earth in a single year. Data from the orbiting astronomical satellite has also confirmed the presence of graphite crystals in the intergalactic dust beyond the Milky Way. Both phenomena should help scientists understand better how stars and galaxies evolve. With any luck, scientists believe, OAO-II could continue to probe the secrets of the universe for many more months...
...Earth is a large book and opens up places you never thought of entering. The section on Understanding Whole Systems, for example, gives you a collection of things concerned with getting to know man better as a phenomenon living among and taking part in an infinite number of other phenomena. You really begin to appreciate yourself when you find out some of the ways interesting people are looking at you and the world. For more specific information about the business of living, go to Shelter and Land Use and Industry and Craft...
Some serious historians have worried about the parallels between U.S. and Roman history, but Reagan's approach is more polemical than historical. He selected phenomena from several centuries of Roman history and touched up the facts a bit to suit his moral. Reagan really should begin research on Sodom and Gomorrah. Somewhere between the lines he might find that S. and G. flamed out just as soon as the local bureaucrats began to fluoridate the water and teach sex education in the schools...
...expression of pure energy crystallized in print. If rock and roll is one of the most important cultural phenomena of the last ten years, it seems to have had little or no influence on recent fiction, other than stealing away most of our potential novelists. (Most of the likely writers born in the forties seem to have become rock and roll stars instead.) Very few recent novels read as though their authors had been exposed to any rock...
...whoring after formalism- these mathematical models are a case in point. It seems to serve much like a philosopher's stone, and leads people to forget about the phenomena themselves in their concern with elegant systems and whether they can fit into them. Then there is all this interest in theory building. As X put it the other day, there is so much regard for being critical and for rigorous theory we may be preventing, or at least not rewarding, people for creating ideas at a fairly low level...