Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in spite of this preoccupation with the past, he symbolized a phenomenon of modern U.S. life which was as familiar to most citizens as the forward pass and nylon stockings-the nation's Community Chests. In a cynical age Charles Francis Adams had never questioned the precept that the man who accepted success or social position thereby accepted responsibility toward 'other men. Neither had he lost faith in the New England belief that a family or a community must care for its own. And after eleven years as president of the Greater Boston Community Fund...
...Canada's barren backlots is a small area where the compass needle, properly suspended, points directly downward. This phenomenon does not usually terrify observers: they know that they are standing on the north magnetic pole, the umbilicus of the earth's magnetic field. When the magnetic pole changes its location, as it does, the needles of all the world's compasses shift a little...
...centuries old phenomenon of nationalism with all its manifestations, remains the chief obstacle to lasting world peace. Deeply engrained in institutions and men, nationalism cannot be abolished by creating a world organization or plan of any species. Certainly, the framers of the United Nations never envisioned it as vanishing national prides and interests, but, rather, hoped that the new organization might weaken the foundations of old habits and start nations along the road to one world...
...have that rare phenomenon, a model Nieman fellow...
...such single-minded planning, William Leonard Pereira has become, at 37, something of a phenomenon in two different fields: architecture and the movies. In his Los Angeles office, he and a staff of eight are now designing: 1) a $7½ million Beverly Hills medical center; 2) a $1 million experimental theater for Paramount; 3) a studio for RKO; and 4) another hospital, two other theaters, two city-planning projects. All told, their volume of business tops $18 million. Last week, busy Mr. Pereira took on another job. He signed a five-year contract with RKO as a producer...