Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The "New Realism" about the U.S. position in international affairs percolated down to the conservative National Association of Manufacturers last week. Attracted by the theory that in internationalism lies the best future protection for American self-interest, the N.A.M.'s postwar committee presented a program that would have created...
Already operagoers had one big disappointment: the plan for a U.S. premiere of Serge Prokofieff's new opera based on Tolstoy's War and Peace, which might have been the sensation of the season, had been called off. Reason: Joseph Stalin insisted on a Moscow premiere first.
Gypsy Rose Lee walked off with a small Degas under her arm, too excited to wait for the rest of the auction. At the book sale particularly, connoisseurs held their seats as the prices skyrocketed. The Manet ellustrées published in 1929, containing Manet watercolor reproductions in color, went...
Lightning (Lockheed P-38). This twin-tailed twin-engined single-seater, most unorthodox of all fighters in World War II, has proven a sensation. One of the fastest of pursuits at high altitudes, it can also lug bombs on low-altitude missions, fight its way out when bombs are dropped...
Democracy and Dogma. In Christian theology Chesterton found "the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy," and the dogmatic justification of many of his social and political views. In the medieval church he saw the protector of the small landowner and the life of individual intensity. "There is no basis for democracy," he...