Word: diversionism
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Thanks in part to his decisive handling of the scandal-and in part also to the diversion of Princess Anne's engagement-Prime Minister Edward Heath was in no danger of being unseated because of the Lambton affair. Nonetheless, there were rumors that trouble for his Conservative government might...
The carnival atmosphere at Rosenblatt Stadium stands in sharp contrast with the hot somnolence of Saturday in downtown Omaha. And perhaps this is why the World Series has been a success for such a long time. For the people of Omaha the College World Series is an annual festival, bringing...
HE IS THE PERFECT NARRATOR: as a journalist he feels he must be painstaking, as an ambitious writer he can't help showing off the only style he knows -- the kind of style that anyone would resort to after writing about baseball games every day for a generation, and as...
So where the conventional film engrosses, the Dziga-Vertov film alienates. In place of entertainment, it offers irritation, in place of subtlety, didacticism. Against the passivity of film as diversion, it seeks to provoke an active and critical response. That is the justification for the irrealism of Godard's plot...
The conditions on some gifts verge on the absurd. In this category would go the famous donation of the mother of Harry Elkins Widener, who insisted, among other things, that all students be required to swim 50 yards before graduating from Harvard. Less well known is the case of a...