Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pattern. So far, only the big-name colleges, mostly in the East, have really felt the first impact of the great tidal wave. Though the number of high-school students who go on to college has jumped from 15% in 1940 to 40%, the nation's 1,800 institutions of higher learn ing can still keep up with the demand. But what of the years immediately ahead? By the time the present crop of first-graders is ready for college, says Dean of Admissions Arthur Howe Jr. of Yale, en rollments may soar to between...
...centuries since the death of its founder in 483 B.C., Buddhism has had little direct impact on the Christian West. Today, however, a Buddhist boomlet is under way in the U.S. Increasing numbers of intellectuals-both faddists and serious students-are becoming interested in a form of Japanese Buddhism called...
...patient has risen since 1945 from $1.06 to $3.26, the ratio of employees to patients from one for every 6.8 to one for every 3.6. Though these figures are still woefully low, the rise has made it possible to treat more patients rather than just maintain them. With the impact of the tranquilizer drugs to help, many top state mental hospitals last year were discharging from 65% to 80% of first admissions. The committee's forecast: the trend will continue...
...viewer who believes that the verdict of democracy is fine for government but folly for television. The viewer is both the unwitting culprit and the ultimate victim of the tyranny. The ratings discourage worthy programs that might make a deeply favorable-but un-measurable-impression (including sales impact), but that do not attract measurably large numbers. They inspire imitations of high-rated programs, touching off cycles of the second-rate...
...been dissipated. Director Alfred Hitchcock, in a change of pace from his usual suspense formula, seems to have been so impressed with having a true story to tell that he gave it a completely literal rendering. Turning the story into fiction without fictionalizing, he stripped it of its emotional impact; by sticking to the facts, he missed the truth...