Word: sensationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them in their desire. Thus the beating of town youths may go almost unpunished if the athletes involved are valuable to the university; for it is better to let them off with a stern warning than to put them on probation or expel them and risk the nastiness of sensationalist press coverage...
Stace also attempted to refute the view that physical sensation is the only kind of experience recognized in empiricism. "Empiricism is neutral on the number of kinds of experience," he declared. The sensationalist theory, he said, ought not to attempt to prove its truth on the basis of empiricism...
...Cambridge community has been treated with a book composed of sensationalist scandal (resembling a Cambridge Confidential). with the pained, painful cries of an upset individual, and with a series of brilliant insights into the sins and omissions of a group of human beings. Whether it was Mr. Raditsa's intention or not (and Mr. Raditsa's intentions will fill the air of tutors' discussions for days)the sixth issue of i.e. has appeared following the publication of the last Advocate for this college year. Unable to reply at length until next fall, we nonetheless ask the CRIMSON, relying...
...editors of the Advocate, one of the organizations criticized in the recent i.e., replied in a letter calling the issue a mixture of "sensationalist scandal, the painful cries of an upset individual, and a series of brilliant insight." The recent i.e. had charged that the Advocate tabboed the discussion of literature...
Soliciting the support of Walter Winchell, a sensationalist himself, only goes further to prove that any intelligent American reader should not waste his or her time turning the cover...