Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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No wonder the existentialist suffers from irremediable anguish, James might say. He exalts the self and existence at the expense of instinct, sensation, and being. Life is absurd for the existentialist; it is not for the female fly on the bit of dung. The existentialist moans, "I am." The fly...
The inhalation of nitrous oxide made Hegelian philosophy some-what comprehensible--wonder of wonders!--to James. "What reader of Hegel," he writes, "can doubt that the sense of a perfected Being with all its otherness soaked up into itself, which dominates his whole philosophy, must have come from the prominence...
Get With It. For years, the tabloid Pictorial had disturbed its readers with little more than sex and sensation, a formula that kept it third in the Sunday field, with a circulation of 5,172,000, trailing only the huge News of the World (6,484,455) and another Mirror...
To Cudlipp, and to burly Cecil Harmsworth King, 62, boss of the huge Mirror Group, it was obvious that the Pictorial needed some juicing up. Not that they wanted to change its pro-Labor politics, or any of the staples that have so long attracted its working-class readers-sports...
"The mind chooses to suit itself, and decides what particular sensation shall be held more real and valid than all the rest." This is the essence of the Gestalt doctrine of perceptual constancies. of course, in proposing such a theory, James was rejecting the passive, reactive, blank tablet model of...