Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The recommendation last spring that Yale freshmen be assigned to a College immediately upon arriving in New Haven created a minor sensation. (In another section of the report, the committee suggested that Yale plan ultimately to establish a women's college.) The committee's ideal was that someday someone would...
The recommendation last spring that Yale freshmen be assigned to a College immediately upon arriving in New Haven created a minor sensation. (In another section of the report, the committee suggested that Yale plan ultimately to establish a women's college.) The committee's ideal was that someday someone would...
An all-purpose halfback-quarterback at Salt Lake City's Granite High in 1958, Fortie drew only fleeting interest from college scouts. University of Utah boosters invited him to a recruiting banquet, but the dinner was postponed. Utah State talent hunters asked him to a swimming party, took one...
Pentagon scientists, write Burdick-Wheeler, have reduced men to automatons. An underground missile base in Colorado gives the "sensation of entering an ingenious collective coffin," populated by swarms of ''emotional neuters, technicians of a greater terror taught to ignore the unalterable end of their work."
This ham-and-existentialist Zenwich put together by a young American absurdist named Jack Gelber and first served in an off-Broadway theater, was eagerly gobbed up by sensation-hungry hundreds of let's -go-down-to-the-Villagers. But what was fundamentally wrong with the play remains fundamentally...