Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiss & Marry. When the traveling theater first came to the Bessarabian village of Holeneshti, it stirred a sensation. The little Jewish community had never seen a live actor. What was the theater? Did you eat it with a fork or a spoon? Did you sprinkle sugar or salt over it...
The legend of Conant the Wandering Scholar therefore has little substance An undergraduate impression also shared by many alumni and even some faculty members--that is harder to kill is of Conant the Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is...
As an aid in rehabilitation, Kessler pointed out, orthopedists can now take advantage of the amputee's familiar "phantom limb" sensation, i.e., after an amputation, patients often "feel" pain in the lost member. Instead of trying to get rid of this sensation, doctors in Vaduz, capital of the postage...
Spatialist Dova frets at the old idea that a painting is something to be enclosed by a frame: "I want to conclude my ideas outside the frame, to give the sensation that outside is everything."
Socrates with Dry Martini. This target practice has won him a unique position in U.S. education. He is not an educator in the usual sense: he never drafted a college catalogue or worried about a football team. He writes too well, and has made too much money writing, to be...