Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student at Boston University, or if you've ever stood transfixed as a horde of orange-robed, bald-headed gents chanting "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna," ran by you on the street, they you've come face to face with one of the most significant, widespread, and least-understood cultural phenomena of 1970's America--personality snapping...
After the nightmare of World War II, we need to go beyond making obvious moral judgments of human beings in history. Unfortunately, James MacGregor Burns's book doesn't change the fact that "leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth." The mystery remains...
...Space Telescope, a 2.4 m (94 in.) mirror scheduled to be placed in orbit by the space shuttle in the early 1980s. Flying above the obscuring atmosphere, this observatory should pick up a variety of celestial phenomena, including infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and reveal hidden structural details of galaxies that may harbor black holes...
...House popularity is determined by a number of factors--not just its architecture. Among the most subjective determinants of popularity seems to be the House image. One of the most extraordinary phenomena of the past few years has been the loss of popularity of Adams House, once the perennial favorite because of its proximity to the Yard, as well as its physical accouterments, which include a swimming pool and enough tunnels to keep mole happy...
...mistake about it, a new discipline of life history is what Levinson is after. Because he believes no single existing discipline is able to study men's lives as they evolve in the world--each being limited by the questions it poses for itself and the types of phenomena it chooses to study--Levinson is explicitly calling for a massive redirection of psychology, the life sciences, and the social sciences towards the study of the individual life as it is lived in the world. Obviously, the man has chutzpah, but if he is right in his conclusions then such...