Word: ballyhooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scenes such as this that have led Publishers Farrar, Straus & Young to ballyhoo Prince Bart as "the most explosive novel" they have ever published. So loud are the explosions, in fact, that the message of the novel is almost drowned out: Author Kennedy argues that sin is increasing in modern society, and he is against it. This puts him about midway between Philip Wylie and Kathleen Winsor, except that he lacks Wylie's literary stature and writes worse than Winsor...
...interesting to see some Republicans still blaming all the woes of the world on Yalta. Ever since the abortive resolution "blaming" Roosevelt and Truman for the plight of Eastern Europe, Senators who know something about foreign policy have realized that the "Yalta sellout" is nothing but campaign ballyhoo. Regrettably, other Senators, without the time or interest to learn the facts, have accepted the political slogan as gospel. It is a case of infatuation with one's own campaign oratory...
...world is wide, and intelligent thought will readily supply . . . well-sounding names which do not suggest the character of an operation or disparage it in any way and do not enable some widow or mother to say that her son was killed in an operation called "Bunnyhug" or "Ballyhoo...
Italian Cinemactress Silvana (Bitter Rice) Mangano, visiting Manhattan to help ballyhoo "Italian Film Week," reported to police that her $14,000 diamond and ruby ring had been stolen from her hotel room...
While Nixon may be guilty of Fuzzy-mindedness in regard to his campaign funds, and of a certain amount of ballyhoo in trying to clear himself, he is nevertheless morally honest, and certainly not reactionary. He is not McCarthy. (The CRIMSON's coverage of his Boston appearance was not only slanted but inaccurate. Nixon was introduced not by Lodge, who never spoke, but by Herter.) On the other hand, Sparkman has been kept pretty far in the background. Do the "liberals" in the Stevenson camp really think they can kill the filibuster or legisislate FEPC with Sparksman presiding over...