Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plea is made, however, that TIME readers sympathize with rather than sneer at us for this new phenomenon in Philippine life, brought about by Japanese occupation. Before Pearl Harbor, criminality in the Philippines was no worse than in the U.S. and in other countries. After the American surrender at Corregidor, Filipino character . . . had the ruggedness to choose continuance of resistance against the Japs either by guile or by force, in the hills and in the valleys, to make General MacArthur's promised return come sooner, less costly in American lives...
Indifference and its tradition no longer extend into the musical areas of University life, if the sales figures on phonograph records, concerts, and recitals mean anything. A new phenomenon of what might be called selective enthusiasm has moved in lock, stock and barrel: when Briggs & Briggs and McKenna's can sell out their first shipment of the new "Messiah" recording within two days of arrival, when undergraduates will line up for copies of Italian Cetra discs at $3.25 a shot, when the inability of undergraduates to find seats at the BSO's Sanders Theater concerts begins rumblings of revolt...
...TIME, Feb. 10], many outstanding present-day psychologists and psychiatrists feel that the script portrays accurately the writer's character traits, being conditioned by the complexities of his personality. As a result of many investigations within the last two decades, a whole technique has been built around this phenomenon in the form of scientific handwriting analysis, which is considered among the most exact projective methods in order to determine character structure...
Anxiously the 15 A.F.L. elders said: "An era of good feeling is setting in. Industrial strife is definitely on the wane. . . . Demands for [labor] legislation have gained support because of the wave of strikes . . . . We wish to emphasize that the industrial disturbances of 1946 were . . . a passing phenomenon...
...This phenomenon can be traced most directly to James Stewart's performance and Frank Capra's direction. Stewart, as a fine, self-sacrificing, humanity-loving, small-town American, somehow manages to seem human. Although a list of his good deeds and worthy aims would put Skeezix to shame, you almost never get that sadistic hope which a saint-like character usually brings on, that overwhelming wish to see him kick an old woman down a flight of stairs or short-change a small boy. Instead, you like him as much as you like the worst heel Bogart ever played...