Word: sensationalist
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...itself to the proper image of an austere Communist. And her association with a spoiled playboy who had Communist connections is the stuff of an Irving Wallace novel. So what gives? Are the Communists using Miss Davis to revamp their dreary image? Is Angela using the Communists and the sensationalist media to put us all on? Or beneath all those academic trappings, is Prof. Davis simply a crazy, mixed-up broad...
...American kind) dead these thirty years-for the hero's obsessions and the events that keep animating the house. Instead of taking quantities of diverse experiences, and showing us the ways we process this material and the ways it obsesses us, the film turns its cultural matter to sensationalist ends, and obstructs an analysis of human thought instead of offering it directions...
...again examining them, as part of its broader study of the market, and even New York Stock Exchange President Robert Haack concedes: "The specialist system has its shortcomings." As if that were not enough, Richard Ney, a onetime movie actor turned investment adviser, has condemned the specialists in his sensationalist bestseller, The Wall Street Jungle. He charges that the specialists manipulate the market and more than make up their short-term losses by turning enormous profits when prices rise, as they eventually do. Most Wall Streeters find Ney's indictment grossly overstated, though few disagree with his underlying premise...
...existence of the past is a necessary hypothesis for those beginning from scratch, but it easily seduces men into the sterile repetition of sensationalist mannerism. To assume the non-existence of the past is to urge the non-existence of the future. It is at this point that Stravinsky's profound sense of vivifying tradition, in which art is created only insofar as it is recreated, emerges passionately. He opposes to the cults, propagandas, and desiccated systematizations of most contemporary music the central classical value of universality, the common dignity of intelligibility...
...movement has spawned some dozen magazines and newspapers, including the sensationalist Ramparts and the more intellectual Studies on the Left. The lesser publications appear erratically, when the editors happen to have the money, and tend to be studded by advertisements for psychedelic happenings and underground movies and interviews with Allen Ginsberg or Timothy Leary. They also offer lots of free verse on the joys of copulation, distinguished from John Donne's comparable rhapsodies by a self-conscious injection of four-letter words doggedly intended to shock. The movement's bard is Bob Dylan (when in doubt, New Leftists...