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Word: sensationalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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You Can't Run Away from It, a revival of Frank Capra's 1934 Oscar-winning It Happened One Night, has withstood the ravages of time better than most. In its first release, the Samuel Hopkins Adams story of a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) and a jobless reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

The Aaron version relies upon the WHRB announcers to portray the on-the-scene announcers, on the assumption that their voices and techniques could best give the "You are there" sensation. Unfortunately, the announcers sound as if they are describing a football game where Harvard is losing, rather than a...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: War of the Worlds | 10/30/1956 | See Source »

It is something of a shock to pick up a slim book of 132 catalog-card size pages and find the volume entitled The Art of Loving. Such a title might be appropriate for a collection of poetry or perhaps some parables, but it is hardly a humble beginning for...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Fromm Criticizes Modern Loving | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

Fromm has adequate grounds for criticizing current notions of love as "sensation," or "market exchange." He also makes a worthwhile claim for a more mature idea of love based on respect for a different roles of man and woman, parent and child. But by shifting the ground to the conscious...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Fromm Criticizes Modern Loving | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

Main hope for the host Columbia team is its Cuban-born sophomore sensation, Jose Iglesias, who breaks records as consistently as other good runners win races. So far this season, Iglesias has bettered the Dartmouth course record and the Columbia record for the Van Cortlandt course while winning all three...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Unbeaten Runners to Face Lions, Penn in Meet Today | 10/19/1956 | See Source »

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