Word: sensationalistic
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...quit Boston Latin after teaching English there for 31 years (TIME, March 10, 1958). He left with a blast: "The American school system, from first grade through college, has become a huge kindergarten." Marson spells out his charge in a new book, A Teacher Speaks (David McKay; $3.95). No sensationalist ("I feel as though I am doing a mental and spiritual strip-tease before a mob on Boston Common"), Marson hopes "to reveal some of the causes as well as the potential cures for a very sick educational system...
...Siberia, actually caused by the fall of a meteor in 1908, had really resulted from the explosion of a nuclear-powered spaceship attempting to land on earth. Reputable Soviet meteor experts and astronomers ridiculed Kazantsev's theory and accused him of being a charlatan and a cheap sensationalist, but his theories continued to turn up in the Literary Gazette, the publication of the Soviet Writers Union. Last week the Gazette opened its pages to Valentin Rich and Mikhail Chernenkov, who made Kazantsev's imagination seem earthbound indeed. Starting from the premise that earth cannot possibly be the only...