Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting aspect of the current presidential campaign has been the impact on large segments of the Harvard population of the personality and speaking manner of candidate Stevenson. His air of intellectualism and humility have caused thousands to hail him as the most forthright candidate in decades. Everywhere claims are heard that Stevenson's campaign is one of candor and honest discussion of issues, where Eisenhower has fallen to demagoguery and shameful surrender to the reactionary line. I wish to present some serious objections to this theory...
...blood-lust drama and socially significant comedy, S. N. Behrman's Jane has the impact of a cork shot out of a pop-gun. For Jane is a return to pre-war English drawing rooms, to a comfortable society which prefers to share Mr. Chamberlin's confidence in Hitler. It is a paradise in which blustering old rakes and acid cynics are the only heavies. Yet, despite its weightlessness, the world of Jane is a highly civilized and amusing place...
...believes the growth in the American population, rather than interest in any one party, has upped registration. With millions more citizens, we were bound to get new voters, he said, but cautioned that "a comparison of caucus figures is necessary to get the real impact of the population increase...
This week TIME'S John Scott starts on tour as one of our speakers at U.S. colleges and journalism schools. His subjects: the defense of Europe, the emergence of European unity, and the impact of the U.S. on European affairs...
...much shocked this time, though the public still preferred his powerfully modeled portrait heads. The famous ones-Albert Einstein with his lofty brow and fiercely energetic hair; Nehru, smoldering with deep-eyed intensity; Haile Selassie, imperious in thin-drawn pride; Somerset Maugham, his expression twisted and wry-had the impact of enormously effective sketches, superbly drawn...