Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Year at Marienbad (Astor), written by Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, the prophet of The New Dehumanism that is currently fashionable in French letters, and directed by Alain Resnais, the 39-year-old Frenchman who made Hiroshima, Mon Amour (TIME, May 16, 1960), has been bruited about Europe as a...
More Than a Sightseer. Throughout his thrilling day, John Glenn recorded the emotions and impressions of being the U.S.'s first tourist in orbital space. He had little sensation of speed. It was, he said, "about the same as flying in an airliner at, say, 30,000 feet, and looking...
Official organ of "the Christian Nationalist Crusade, a national political committee," the monthly magazine spotlights Phillips in a column entitled "101 Facts Beneath the Surface." "The political sensation of the moment," the article boasts, "is the manifestation of patriotic activity among young people. The right-wing movement among college and...
Fortnight ago, the University of Denver's skinny, asthmatic Charles Ferries, 22, was just another also-ran on the fiercely competitive European ski circuit. A member of the U.S. Alpine ski team since 1960, Ferries had won a couple of races in the U.S., none at all in the...
"As the brilliant fireball rises in the sky,"--and I pause here to note the exhilarating assonance, the repetition of the long i which so effectively expresses the sensation of rising--as the brilliant fireball rises, "it draws up a vast amount of earth.... A little later this material, condensing...