Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Tishomingo Blues" is a slow number for a smooth Davison-Archey coup; "Sensation" a quickstep for Baby Dodds' imaginative drums. Those who like Chippie Hill's brash singing will clap their hands for joy when they play "Baby Won't You Please Come Home," for the venerable lady appears here...
Staffers on Haiti's 50-odd newspapers like to quote Petrarch and Thucydides, compose sonnets and write essays on existentialism, but they rarely get around to covering the news. When they do, their reports are usually sketchy, partisan, filled with slander, vituperation and undocumented sensation.
Aside from your slight error in subtraction (Ulysses was published in February 1922) . . . there is another point at issue: TIME's notorious sluggishness in recognizing works of art as they appear. Since Ulysses was a cocktail-party sensation in 1923, I suppose TIME commented on it during TIME'...
In 1942, after he had become a Ph.D. in psychology, he was made editor of the Tidings when it was a pallid sheet read as a duty by only about 10,000 of the faithful. A man whose sense of morality is easily outraged, Father McCarthy promptly declared war on...
But there were a few exceptions-new models, as it were-which caused somewhat the same sensation as if Citroen had brought out a futuristic Kiddie Kar. They were eleven paintings which came straight from the nursery of the villa at Vallauris, where 6y-year-old Picasso and Franchise Gillot...