Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...causes of her malady, reaching a high pitch of suspense with an attempt to make her hear again through the ingenious use of a lie detector and the shock of an emotional confrontation. Under Sidney (Twelve Angry Men) Lumet's direction, the play combined compassion and extraordinary visual impact in scenes in which the mute father and mother flung their feelings into sign language-taught to the actors by a specialist-and the brother (well-played by Richard Shepard) vented his own anxieties with the laborious croak and articulating grimaces of a man who has never heard...
...impact of real-life truthfulness Compulsion does have, often very impressively. It recapitulates just what happened, and how, and why; it impales conscious and unconscious, willing and unwilling behavior. There are dozens of moments in the play with a power to inform, or shock, or dismay, that wholly shrivel mere theatrical make-believe; and as Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation...
Kissinger, author of "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy," spoke on "The Impact of Modern Weapons on Foreign Policy," at the fourth of the International Development Society's Lecture Series...
...could flourish. Said he: "What is transforming Puerto Rico is not the money but the dynamic productive forces of the U.S. industrial concerns which made the investment decisions and are operating the new factories. Comparable amounts made as loans or grants would have had nowhere near so great an impact...
...gentle The Street, done last year, the Wildenstein exhibition is a succession of triumphs. No fewer than 28 major museums in 16 states contributed to the exhibition, and of its 54 canvases more than half are outright masterpieces. Seen in a body, they bring home with tremendous impact the vast and varied achievements of American painting. Said Harris K. Prior, director of the American Federation of Arts, in a foreword to the Wildenstein show: "Americans are finally accepting their art at its face value, as a valid part of a mature culture...