Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He moves in?and needless to say becomes the sensation of London. Debates about him rage in every club and smoking-compartment and it requires four policemen to keep the crowd moving as they file past his cage. Sermons are preached about him, a question is even asked about him...
Yellow journalism is a form of commerce which consists in pandering to the tastes of a portion of the public- sometimes at the expense of truth, always at the expense of fairness. Like thieving, yellow journalism exists in many varieties. There is the simple ruffianly attack. There is the subtler...
The Significance. In Gold, Mr. Wassermann pursues, in that large, leisurely and intensely depressing manner which the Germans have made their own, an unrelieved essay on social decadence. The book is one more powerful and pessimistic description of the kind of society which produced the War?and judging by the...
There is an old saying to the effect that oil and water will not mix-neither will Monarchists and Communists. That fact was amply brought out in the Reichstag on its opening day. The first scene was one of simple, solemn sensation: General Erich von Ludendorff held court, his admirers...
This composer is Hakon Borresen, and he has written an opera called Kaddara. With the text translated into French, it has just been produced at the Monnaie in Brussels. There it created a sensation.