Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Le Marteau created a mild sensation at its first performance three years ago. After an interval in which Webern's fame has grown tremendously, Boulez' piece has become more accessible, although it remains a rather tough puzzle. Certainly it has far more surface attraction than the Stockhausen recorded here: Boulez...
It has been a long time since the first startling wave of African art made its way to Europe and caused a sensation among the ranks of painters and sculptors. Picasso, under the influence of this so-called primitive vision, painted his Demoiselles d' Avignon and learned much from the...
In the freshman meet, the Yardlings sustained their second loss of the season as Dartmouth sensation Tom Laris led a strong Dartmouth freshman team to a 19-41 win over the freshman harriers.
"As song leader of the cheering section," Reed wrote at the age of 29, "I had the supreme blissful sensation of swaying 2000 voices in great crashing choruses during the big football games."
Thus, in 1912, the Chicago Tribune's Bert Leston Taylor lampooned an extraordinary show by a 31-year-old painter. Except for its jeering tone, the jingle was an accurate enough statement of the creed of Painter Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), who avowedly intended to paint such things...