Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealing with 1987A, provided further insight into Type II supernovas. A group led by Chemist Edward Anders and Physicist Roy Lewis, both of the University of Chicago, revealed that they had discovered an abundance of submicroscopic diamonds in a meteorite that fell in Mexico in 1969. While the impact of a meteor slamming into the earth creates enough pressure to crystallize carbon into diamonds, the tiny samples found by the Chicago team apparently resulted from an ancient supernova. The evidence: they contained atomic forms of the gas xenon different from the kind found on earth or detected...
Trying to figure out what had happened, officials speculated that the 7,951-ton ferry, which was built in 1980, struck the Zeebrugge harbor wall or a sandbar as it made its way out of the port. But surviving passengers did not report feeling any sudden impact. Whatever happened, the bow doors of the cavernous vehicle deck, which was holding 88 cars and 36 trucks, suddenly swung open. The car deck flooded, causing the vessel to tip over. Peter Ford, managing director at Townsend Thoresen, the British company that owns the Herald of Free Enterprise, acknowledged that "somehow the doors...
...million into El Salvador and Costa Rica alone for welfare and church aid. Says Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino, an exponent of liberation theology: "The sects have taken advantage of the weaknesses of the Catholic Church, and the church doesn't know what to do." Asked to explain his impact across Latin America, Swaggart allows, "Problems, persecution, difficulties -- these have always been catalysts that make people seek God. We put hope in people's hearts...
...efforts, Lewis Nkosi has triumphed in his literary debut. The picture he paints of South African society is bleak and powerful and, in the end, convincing. The frustration and psychological suffering that apartheid imposes on all elements of life are made crushingly vivid, and the emotional impact of the unrestrained, passionate voice is compelling. Through this nightmare there remains a glimmer of hope in the freedom songs of the political prisoners, "a single powerful sound rolling and thundering, shaking the very foundations of the prison walls." It is not a practical agenda but only a vision of a possible future...
Arthur Miller is the American Ibsen, a gifted domestic dramatist who instead prefers political crusading, onstage and off. He and his characters have seemed to inhabit a world of clear-cut right and wrong. This personal history gives poignant impact to Miller's new one-acts, collectively titled Danger: Memory!, at New York City's Lincoln Center. One is a kitchen slice of life between elderly friends, the other a charged and almost surreal interview between a hostile police detective and the father of a murder victim. What links them is a parallel revelation: in each, a man about Miller...