Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This political impact may be considerable because the antagonisms nurtured by the burdens of service are superimposed on already existing differences in income and education--thereby hardening the lines of class and widening the gaps in outlook which follow them. The veterans will see all too easily that the more fortunate members of their generation are primarily members of two groups: the culturally and economic elite, and the culturally and economic poor. They will have more reason to discriminate against the second group, and disregard leadership from the first...
...well the play would act; it is a short one-acter and long portions are filled by two monologues. The prose is beautiful to read, though, full of salient images, like the long compounded string in the son's recited dream; it is also highly mellifluous, without sacirficing impact, as in the father's "Big fat black men of God or little black shriveled sacks with the calling still in their protruding bones"; and it achieves minor effects as perfectly as large ones, like the setting of the father's long monologue: "You know the church, Edward. It's where...
...government ministries are Chou's responsibility; the ministries would probably prefer to concentrate on the country's rice and steel quotas. But Mao and Lin's watchers, following events like soap opera devotees, wonder if Chou will be able to prevail up on Mao and Lin to soften the impact of the Cultural Revolution on the provincial chiefs and his own bureaucrats...
...give his question added impact, all 5,000 Saigon stevedores went out on strike. The G.I.s undertook only to offload the necessary military supplies, leaving dozens of ships with civilian goods and USAID cargoes stacking up in the river. To bring pressure on the Army negotiators, the Dock Workers Union summoned all 50,000 union members in all of Saigon's industries to a one-day general sympathy strike. But few responded, and at week's end the pressure was coming from the other side: Premier Ky applied some pressure of his own, asserting that "strikes...
...year. Early in 1966, our editorial staff gathered for a dinner at New York's Plaza Hotel, largely to socialize but also to hear a progress report on TIME. "The recognition for what we do individually goes to the magazine as a whole, with its great success and impact," said Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer. So, without smugness, we take some satisfaction from the fact that financially this was our best in 44 years of publishing...