Word: sensationalistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE IS ALSO no justification for the press's coverage of the SLA--biased, sexist, sensationalist, and superficial. The Boston Globe has devoted three days of features this week to a popular psychology-type diagnosis of Patricia Hearst's emotional development. In The Globe, she is described as dependent and weak-willed. The Los Angeles Times last February called her self-reliant and "a classic beauty." References to the sexual mores of the SLA women abound. Even Vin McLellan, a Boston Phoenix writer who has thoroughly reported the background of Donald DeFreeze, belittles the SLA for misspellings in their documents...
Further persistence by those students who have protested embarrasses themselves more than Professor Kiely, and The Crimson's sensationalist coverage of this matter degrades the paper as well as Kiely and his students. Professor Robert Kiely is one of the most concerned and interested men, one of the finest teachers and administrators, in Harvard University, and I hope other students who have known him through this or other courses will support him against the insulting allegations passed in the last three days. Lewis E. Cobbs'75 Quincy House
...This opportunity has been available to any student all year. I wish more professors were as interested in students as Professor Kiely, and I wish more students had the initiative to organize pre-exam reviews. I feel, then, that the tone and implication on your article was not only sensationalist, but was a disservice to one of the finest professors in the University...
Ginsberg's complete openness about his own life as a homosexual has probably helped his poetry in the sense that he's remained very close to the truth. But it's also given him a sensationalist reputation. It's hard sometimes to suppress the feeling that he's trying to do more with his poetry that "surprise by a fine excess...
Almost every frame in A Clockwork Orange is dead, pre-planned to the last actor's detail, and predictably sensationalist. Kubrick's gelled his fluids in a concept-ridden icebox: his effects misfire because they are backed neither by rigorously developed intellectual argument nor compassion. From the moment that the orange and blue credit backgrounds start to work on us, followed by that long dolly which grows from Malcolm McDowell's leer to encompass the entire terribly-clever Korova Milk bar set, we are begged to participate in a mere thrill show. A proud Kubrick tells his interviewers how people...