Word: impactful
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...fact, most of those people, a remarkable number of whom were festooned with Minolta cameras and crowned with Sony Walkman headsets, must have had doubts. Protest is an industry, organized, priced, packaged and advertised, for maximum impact, on the Capitol Mall. Since the rhetoric of campaign politics portrays the President-to-be as a supercolossal wizard for everything that anybody ever wanted, it is logical that the protest industry should focus blame on him for everything that anybody couldn...
Emboldened by their success, student activists asked for another open meeting of the ACSR this spring, at which they asked it to recommend to the Corporation to sell the stock of any companies in its portfolio with ties to South Africa. Their pleas apparently had some impact on the advisory body. For the first time ever, the ACSR voted on a resolution recommending complete divestiture, and narrowly defeated it by a vote of 6 to 5, with one abstention. The abstaining member then changed his vote, bringing it to an even 6 to 6 split. There solution did not pass...
Student projects--the Endowment for Divestiture and the week-long fast by a dozen undergraduates--had little impact on the ACSR's discussions. Some members laughed off the hunger strikers as fanatics or brats--one member ignorantly suggested that the hunger strikers were probably all women interested in losing weight. But if they had little effect on the outcome of Committee deliberations, the fasters at least heightened most of the members' awareness of the gravity of the issue being discussed...
Others disagree. Officials of the National Urban League, one of the eight sponsors of the 1963 march, declined to join in this time, saying they feared that its "focus on a broad range of issues is likely to limit its impact." Bayard Rustin, stage manager of the original event, was another prominent no-show in 1983. Some Jewish organizations, angered by language in an early version of a march manifesto implying disapproval of the level of U.S. arms shipments to Israel, also decided to withhold support. In the end, however, the offending passages were toned down...
...Viet Nam War (300,000) and the AFL-CIO's 1981 Solidarity Day rally (260,000). But it was not the size of the crowd the first time that mattered so much as the force of King's vision. It seared the American consciousness with an impact that almost no one foresaw. Arriving in Washington during a national debate over black civil rights that was anything but decided, King carried the moral credentials of a crusader for a cause that was undeniably just. By peacefully assembling his masses in the nation's capital-and in front...