Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the increasingly serious nature of the freshman class, every year a peculiar phenomenon known as the Freshman Jubilee forces itself upon the calm Cambridge scene. The first announcement is a barrage of posters in the Union proclaiming the merits of various candidates for the "prestigious Jubilee Committee...
...this phenomenon can aggravate a terrific problem in mental institutions-getting patients who have recuperated enough to be able to manage on the outside to leave the community where they feel secure and important. For Harvard students, however, there is usually a less stark contrast between a threatening outside world and a homelike hospital than that many patients face. As one boy explained, "Harvard students want to leave the hospital because they have a solid social structure to return to. In my case," he went on, "I was initially given to understand that I would stay about a year...
...Excuse me, I see that the engaging flow, such as it is, of this narrative- cum -expose has been interrupted. The "shee-it" is the voice of my freshman roommate, First you must understand that "freshman roommate" is itself a perjorative term-a curious phenomenon given the fact that, not only did most of us have one, most of us were one. Mine happened to be from Mississippi. ("No, white, " I would explain, with the appropriate tone of annoyance to my outraged relatives.) What was a nice boy from Boston doing with a roommate like that? The fault...
...Acanthaster plague baffles scientists. It could be a periodic natural phenomenon; many species mysteriously multiply for a time, then inexplicably decline in number. A more probable explanation is that man has upset the reefs delicate ecological balance. By relentlessly hunting for a rare trumpet-shaped mollusk called the giant triton, some scientists say, shell collectors have taken a devastating toll of one of the crown-of-thorns' few natural enemies. Other scientists speculate that the imbalance may have been caused by dredging and underwater blasting, lingering pesticides or even radioactive fallout...
...flaw in style is compounded, in Barber's view, by a major character deficiency - Nixon's tendency to lapse into unguarded behavior after periods of great stress. Nixon himself as much as acknowledged the phenomenon in his Six Crises, and later went on to explode bitterly at the press following his 1962 California gubernatorial defeat. Barber even provides a scenario for a future situation brought on by Nixon's "crisis syndrome": the Administration is defeated on a key issue, Nixon losing face or power in the bargain; at a press conference, he is badgered about...