Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy...
Day of Wrath is, to be sure, the kind of classical work in which scrupulous care is taken never to exploit a sensation or an emotion. Thus, beautiful as it is, it leaves one relatively cold. Dreyer seems to be more interested in creating motion portraits than drama, but he...
A little engine called the "Road Transport Gas Turbine" was the sensation of the British Industries Fair, which opened last week at Birmingham. Though it has not yet completed its bench tests, London newspapers hailed the gas turbine as the advance guard of a power revolution. A vehicle driven by...
He gave no more hits, no runs, and struck out Ted Williams the next time he came to bat. It was Brissie's first big-league victory (4-2). Said Philadelphia's 85-year-old Manager Connie Mack, who sweated out the game on the bench, "I never...
Actress Judith Anderson and the producers of the Broadway hit, Medea, resigned from each other, refused to tell anybody what it was all about. Business was fine; breast-beating Star Anderson had been a critical and popular sensation. But now everything was off after May, including next season's...