Word: sensationalistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Jungfrau and other peaks. Feeling confident, she strolled to a nearby ski shop to buy a parka and ski pants, more appropriate to the surroundings than the olive two-piece suit that she wore. It was her undoing. The store owner recognized her and phoned the news to the sensationalist Zurich tabloid Blick, which offers money for all such tips...
...Masters' coming book is constructed as scientifically as his research has been conducted, the sensationalist will read elsewhere and buy more cheaply...
...congregation generally finds Wine's godless, empirical approach inspiring. Says Attorney Merrill Miller: "He has made religion the most meaningful experience for me in terms of ethical and moral decisions." Other rab bis in Detroit, however, think that Wine is an immature sensationalist, and the schedule of his weekly sermons has been struck from the local Jewish News. Pittsburgh's Rabbi Solomon Freehof, one of Reform Judaism's leading theologians, suggests that Wine ought to drop all pretenses entirely and call his Birmingham Temple the "rationalist association of Detroit." "When he uses the title rabbi...
...uncomfortably contained within one cover. One book, by Anderson the scholar, is a Ph.D. dissertation written under the auspices of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. It presents a systematic, statistically-backed case against the existing federal urban renewal program. The other book, by Anderson the sensationalist, would have more appeal to a Sunday afternoon crowd in Hyde Park. It declares simply that private enterprise can do everything that federal planning has so far failed to do, and can do it faster...