Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Well deserving of its Oscar, the best foreign film of the year owes much of its impact to Josef Króner and Ida Kamińska as a couple of harmless villagers who have to work out their own answers to the Jewish question-orrather, the Nazi question-in German-occupied Czechoslovakia...
...Your excellent story on the recorder [July 15] was incomplete. Many Americans, including me, heard their first recorder played by the Trapp family in the late '40s. The impact of that group continues to be felt in many recorder groups now playing. What a pity that Sound of Music ignored the recorder completely...
Once man knows more precisely just what the weather is going to do and where, he can not only prepare for it but bring to bear his modern tools to dissipate its force, change its course or moderate its impact. Silver-iodide seeding has revived its once-faltering reputation, and many future plans revolve around seeding everything from tornadoes to typhoons. The Soviets are testing sound as a possible way to disperse fog, have even suggested damming the Bering Strait to make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing...
...dropping Thunderbirds and Mercurys nose-first from cranes; they have also run cars into concrete barriers, then watched the crack-ups on stop-action movie screens. As a result of the lessons learned, Ford President Arjay Miller announced in Detroit last week that some 1969 models will have collapsible, impact-absorbing front ends as a safety feature...
...People All Around is written in an old-fashioned protest-play form that seems utterly void of impact in the 1960's. Moments bear a striking resemblance to Waiting for Lefty. The play as a whole comes most definitely from a genre that pervaded the Odets era; Sklar's earlier titles, in fact, include works like Peace on Earth (1933), Stevedore (1934), and Life and Death of an American (1939), the final production of the Federal Theatre Project. Even the title And People All Around is revealing of the author's toward the "serious theatre" he sees this country lacking...